Case file · Sacred site
Serpent Mounds, Rice Lake
A burial mound about 60 m long in the shape of a serpent, with smaller oval mounds, built on Rice Lake around two thousand years ago; the Royal Ontario Museum excavated it from 1955.
1955 CE · 44.21, -78.15 · status: official
The account
It is the only effigy mound in Canada. The land is cared for by the Hiawatha First Nation, and the remains removed in excavations have been returned for reburial.