Turtle Mound

This covered cairn located in the backyard of 7 Lakeside Circle (off Haggetts Pond Road). Stones, ranging from pebbles to 3 tons, form a multi-chambered structure.

See

• Ruins of Great Ireland in New England, Andover Room R 973.11 Goo, pages 102 to 180.
• NEARA Newsletter (New England Antiquities Research Association Newsletter), December 1969. This is found in the Andover Vertical File under architecture.

Definition of a cairn from dictionary.com: a heap of stones set up as a landmark, monument, or tombstone.

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