Milk River

MILK RIVER                                                    Site:             DgPa-1a

Type:         Medicine Wheel - Group 2            Status:         Destroyed

Region:     Alberta, Canada                            Location:     (protected)*

Record:    Conceptualization                          File:             (protected)*

Site Plan & Local Topography:

Setting:      It is atop a prominent hill 500m west of a creek.

Brief:    It is described as a 2.5m diameter cairn surrounded by a 13m diameter stone circle. There was a cluster of stones (measuring approximately 0.8m by 2m) on the south-southeast edge of the central cairn with smaller rock concentrations on the margins of the cairns as well.

Design:      The shape of the central cairn was originally interpreted as a turtle effigy, with clusters of stone forming the head and four appendages.

 *For preservation.  Access for serious contributors from the