A well-documented serpent mound now kept off limits. Tue 19 April 2022
Serpent Mounds Park, Keene, Ontario, Canada. Source
Publicly available information on this serpent mound is from Andrew King's book Serpentine - An Ancient Solstice Monument in Ontario and various papers/articles by Richard B Johnston listed below.
First recorded in 1896 by David Boyle.
Serpent Mound Park: (Google Maps), (Google Streetview), (OpenStreetMap), (Flickr images)
Map from Ottarewind. Source
Keene serpent mound was easy to find and measure. Source
Dimensions and some key features have been mapped. Source
As usual, its given an astronomical explanation. Source
Originally called Otonabee serpent mound. Source: The Megalithic Portal
View from egg mound down body to tail. Source: The Megalithic Portal
More information
- Site discovery stories and images
- Everything Explained: Serpent Mounds Park
- The Archaeology of the Serpent Mounds Site, Richard B Johnston, 1968
- More Findings at the Serpent Mounds Site, Rice Lake, Ontario, Richard B Johnston
- The Findings After Two Years Work at Serpent Mounds Site, Rice Lake, Ontario, Richard B Johnston
- Individual mound locations
- Hiawatha First Nations serpent mounds park
- Lament for a First Nation associates the mounds with battles and questions dating
- Mound context extracted from Prehistory of Ontario ebook and archived
- The Megalithic Portal's location notes
- Serpent Mounds Park management plan
Richard Johnston's series on Keene Serpent Mound in Peterborough Examiner: 1. A teacher, an archaeologist, and the Serpent 2. New Discoveries, New Insights 3. Serpent Mounds: Evidence in Ancient Artifacts 4. The Serpent Returns/Now the Serpent Lies Still
Head and tail positions are unknown but somewhere around here
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