Turtle Mound

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

The owner of the property, a M. Harnois, built a shrine to a saint on the site in 1914. See

  • Ruins of Great Ireland in New England, Andover Room R 973.11 Goo, pages 102 to 108.
  • NEARA Newsletter (New England Antiquities Research Association Newsletter), December 1969. This is found in the Andover Vertical File under architecture.
  • NEARA Site Report Sheet. 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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