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From the ''Andover Guide'' Spring 2007 | From the ''Andover Guide'' Spring 2007 | ||
"A Look at Andover Turtle Mound" by Tom Draheim | "A Look at Andover Turtle Mound" by Tom Draheim | ||
* A cairn located at 7 Lakeside Circle overlooking Haggetts Pound in West Andover | * A cairn located at 7 Lakeside Circle overlooking Haggetts Pound in West Andover | ||
* Possibly the oldest stone structure in America | * Possibly the oldest stone structure in America. Definition of a cairn from dictionary.com: a heap of stones set up as a landmark, monument, or tombstone. | ||
* A pile of granite boulders deliberately stacked on top of each other about 70 feet long and 15 feet wide. The stones range in size from pebbles to 3 tons. | * A pile of granite boulders deliberately stacked on top of each other about 70 feet long and 15 feet wide. The stones range in size from pebbles to 3 tons. | ||
* From above the mound is roughly shaped like a turtle.. | * From above the mound is roughly shaped like a turtle.. | ||
Revision as of 15:19, 13 April 2007
From the Andover Guide Spring 2007 "A Look at Andover Turtle Mound" by Tom Draheim
- A cairn located at 7 Lakeside Circle overlooking Haggetts Pound in West Andover
- Possibly the oldest stone structure in America. Definition of a cairn from dictionary.com: a heap of stones set up as a landmark, monument, or tombstone.
- A pile of granite boulders deliberately stacked on top of each other about 70 feet long and 15 feet wide. The stones range in size from pebbles to 3 tons.
- From above the mound is roughly shaped like a turtle..
- It is contains two cave-like chambers of either side and a rock-lined tunnel that cuts through one end of the mound. The chambers are about eight feet in diameter and ten feet high inside.
- Frank Glynn in, a Yale archeologist found a layer of human bones mixed with charcoal indicating an ancient ceremonial and cremation. (1951)
- Glynn found stone artifacts : spear points, axe heads, hammer stones, and drills from 3000 B.C.
- Radiocarbon dating the charcoal sets the date at 2000 B.C.
- 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
- Andover Guide Spring 2007, "A Look at Andover Turtle Mound" by Tom Draheim
- 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.