- Date
- 2011-09
- Kind
- Observation
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- heritagehistoriographysurveyingcartographycommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The September 2011 Beacon publishes Martin Doutré’s interpretation of the Beaver Island stone circle, based on a Google Earth overlay and an AutoCAD site plan. He proposes that recurring angles and distances encode navigational and lunar-cycle numbers and suggests a possible connection to ancient Bronze Age copper miners.
Evidence limits
These are Doutré’s interpretations, not an archaeological finding established by the Beacon or by an independent survey. The article itself acknowledges possible inaccuracies in the recorded stone positions and calls for a modern re-survey.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, September 2011, "Our Mysterious Circle."Publishes Doutré's overlay-based orientation and scaling of the stone circle, his proposed recurring distance-and-angle codes, and his interpretation that the site could relate to ancient Bronze Age copper miners and navigation; the article also calls for a modern re-survey. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2011-09_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the stone-circle interpretation and Google Earth overlay.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2011-09_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Martin Doutré publishes a contested interpretation of Beaver Island's stone circle, 2011”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-stone-circle-interpretation-2011/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 2011, "Our Mysterious Circle." (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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