Sunday, May 02, 2021

Ontario Mounds

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.





2 comments :

pwax said...

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.

Anonymous said...

These are not burial mounds. There is nothing in them and never is. These are stone prayers. They are symbolic.