Ross

ROSS                                                              Site:             EfOq-87

Type:         Medicine Wheel - Group 3            Status:         Undisturbed

Region:     Alberta, Canada                            Location:      (protected)*

Record:    Survey (protected)*                        File:             (protected)*

Site Plan & Local Topography:

Setting:        On  a  high  hill  with  an  excellent view  in  all  directions,  about  4.5km  north  of the  Red Deer  River  valley.

Brief:            A  3.9m  diameter  central  cairn  with  an  arc  of stones  to  the  NW  about  20m.   The central  cairn  contains  about   100  small  boulders  and  the  partial  circle  contains  pebbles, cobbles  and  a  few  small boulders.  The  body  and  legs  of a  male  effigy  lie   1m  east  of the  central  cairn,  the  legs  extending  4.5m  from  a  2m  torso,  and  a   1.2m  long  penis.

Design:        If the human effigy features of this site were isolated here, it would be easy to assume that they were desecrations of some original design, committed at some later period.  However, the number of obviously similar human features occurring within medicine wheels more easily supports a broader interpretations such that all entryway sites, and perhaps other groups of features, are in fact more abstract or stylized human forms.

*For preservation.  Access for serious contributors from the