The British Block Cairn (Ed0p-1) is located on the Suffield Block in

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, Canada. In the summers of 1961 and 1962, the Chief Superintendent of the

Suffield Experimental Station The military research facility located north of Suffield, Alberta, operated under the name of the Suffield Experimental Station (SES) from 1950 to its renaming to the Defence Research Establishment Suffield in 1967. History 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. 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.Liz Bryan, The Buffalo People - Pre-contact archaeology on the Canadian plains

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