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Bayer's Lake Mystery Walls

Mysterious stone enclosure in Halifax, Nova Scotia

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The Bayers Lake Mystery Walls are a series of stone structures and walls of unknown origin and uncertain age in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Paleolithic
Mesolithic
Neolithic
Chalcolithic
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Classical Period
Post-Classical Period
Early Modern Period
Industrial Period
Contemporary Period
Temporal Epochs

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Photographic documentation and mapping

May–August 2006

Saint Mary's University field school excavations

May 27–June 5, 1998

Dutch Village land grant

1762

Property sold by Schermuller

1770

1918 map record

1918

Davis Archaeological Consultants test unit

December 1990

Lichenologist assessment

December 1998

Advocacy planning and pXRF funding

2015

pXRF soil analysis

2017

Classification

Archaeological Features

Unique architectural and cultural elements found at this historical site

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Defensive Structures

Defensive WallsDitches
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Animal Husbandry Features

Animal PensLivestock Enclosures
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Agricultural and Land Use Features

Cattle Pens
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Domestic and Habitation Structures

Houses
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Country

Canada

Coordinates

44.64° N, -63.66° E