Halbrite

HALBRITE                                                       Site:             DiMv-2

Type:         Medicine Wheel - Group 1            Status:         Destroyed

Region:     Saskatchewan, Canada                Location:     (protected)*

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

Site Plan & Local Topography:

Setting:        Caps a small knoll on a rolling ridge 500m east of the Souris River.

Brief:             An 8m diameter, 2m high central cairn with four radiating spokes, the eastern two of which had been truncated by a road at the time of the survey.   A 1907 excavation of the central cairn discovered human burial artifacts.

Design:         The design intent at Halbrite was most obviously a cross.  If the cross is aligned to anything, its multiple directions make that difficult to prove.  Without spoke-end cairns and considering road-building disturbance, other forms of useful variability are 

*For preservation.  Access for serious contributors from the