Turtle Mound
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This covered cairn located in the backyard of 7 Lakeside Circle, Andover (off Haggetts Pond Road) is a multi-chambered structure that is thought by some to look like a turtle. The stones range in size from pebbles to 3 tons.
One of the owners of the property, a M. Harnois, built a shrine to a saint on the site in 1914. Evidence of Harnois' shrine still exists.
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.