Reader Joanne writes:
We found these unusual stacked rock piles deep in the woods. The one is quite large, almost an igloo shape, maybe 10 feet across and 4 feet high with a depression in the centre. It is made up of carefully placed stones. About 65 feet away from it is a flat circular mound about 6 feet across, under a very distinctive bent tree.
Further on in the woods we found another stacked pile up against a rock out cropping but I don't have a clear photo of it. These piles are well back in the woods and not near any homesteads or farms, or even roads.
Any thoughts on their origin? Thanks for taking a look at them.
[Added later:] This site is west of Algonquin park in Ontario. In the park itself there are 41 smaller rock cairns but none as large as this one.
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Long time readers of this blog know there are frequent references to "rectangular mounds with hollows'. That seems like a correct description of what we see in the photos. I believe they are burial mounds.
It is interesting to compare these to the "barrel" mounds ("Cairns") also from Ontario, a few posts ago.
These are not burial mounds. There is nothing in them and never is. These are stone prayers. They are symbolic.
If there is a bent tree over the pile of rocks. That’s got to be Indians.
"Indians" what century are you living in?
I have found a few of these on my property as well. Severn Township
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