Serpent Mounds Park

Near Keene, Ontario, on Rice Lake, Serpent Mounds Park contains one of Ontario’s most important ancient earthwork sites. First constructed and occupied about 2,000 years ago during the Middle Woodland Period, it preserves an unusually complete record of about 350 years of life and burial practices associated by archaeologists with the Point Peninsula complex. Its best-known feature is a rare serpent-shaped earthen burial mound, the only one of its kind in Canada, accompanied by eight nearby oval or round mounds. Human remains and artifacts found there illuminate material culture and ancestral reverence, and the site was recognized in 1982 as a National Historic Site of Canada with East Sugar Island.

Ontario · Canada