This mound of rocks, about nine meters wide and less than one metre high, was partial ly uncovered by maintenance crews on the road to the village of L'Anse-Amour in 1973. In 1974, archaeologists removed the rocks, carefully mapping and photographing their positions, to find a small stone chamber. No traces of a burial apart from a few stains of red ochre were found in the chamber which had been suspected of perhaps holding the body of a person of importance. Beneath the chamber, however, was found a surprisingly well preserved skeleton of a child and a collection of artifacts, placed there 7,500 years before. The child was in an extended position, face down, with a rock resting on his back.
After the excavation, the burial mound was restored to its original form. Seventy-five centuries ago, this is probably how it looked.
