This is about rock piles and stone mound sites in New England. A balance is needed between keeping them secret and making them public. Also arrowheads, stone tools and other surface archaeology.
Monday, January 16, 2006
That's not a stone wall
This elongated group of stones is not a stone wall. It runs for about 30 feet - rising out of the ground as a dirt ridge on the left, changing to exposed rocks for a while and ending with a gap and a separate rock pile on the right. From left to right it seems to zig-zag. Off to the far right behind the trees is a large pile shaped a bit like a turtle - with a high domed back and a large "head" rock on one end. Here are some pictures of the "turtle pile".
These are along Heath Hen Meadow Brook in Stow and I found them a few weeks ago. It is a small well contained site, a good candidate for study with only about 5 rock piles, a couple of rock-on-rocks, a stone wall anomaly, and these two large effigy like piles.
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Actually the field is on the other side of the brook.
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