British Block Cairn

British Block Cairn
British Block Cairn
	British Block Cairn
Location	Cypress County, Alberta, Canada
Original use	First Nations site
Website	http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=14944
National Historic Site of Canada
Designated	1973

The British Block Cairn (Ed0p-1) is located on the Suffield Block in Alberta, Canada. In the summers of 1961 and 1962, the Chief Superintendent of the Suffield Experimental Station, Mr. A. M. Pennie, granted crews from the Glenbow Foundation, consisting of R.G. Forbis, D. R. King, Frank O'Leary, Kenneth Smith, John Miller, and James Farmilo, access to the cairn.^[1] Dating from around 1400 C.E, the site consists of a large boulder cairn surrounded by a ring of stones and a human effigy figure.^[2]^[3]

References[]

^ H.M. Wormington and Richard G. Forbis, An Introduction to the Archaeology of Alberta, Canada, Denver Museum of Natural History Proceedings No. 11
^ Trevor R. Peck, Archaeological Evidence For Native Lifeways On The Northern Plains
^ Liz Bryan, The Buffalo People - Pre-contact archaeology on the Canadian plains

Coordinates: 50°36′18″N 110°35′15″W / 50.6051°N 110.5875°W / 50.6051; -110.5875

[1] H.M. Wormington and Richard G. Forbis, An Introduction to the Archaeology of Alberta, Canada, Denver Museum of Natural History Proceedings No. 11

[2] Trevor R. Peck, Archaeological Evidence For Native Lifeways On The Northern Plains

[3] Liz Bryan, The Buffalo People - Pre-contact archaeology on the Canadian plains

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