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.
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Springtime in Estabrook Woods, Concord
Can you see the rock pile in this picture? Did you guess? I think there is one underfoot on the path a few feet in front of the camera. It was a beautiful day to be out and there is finally some color coming back to the woods. So I went back to one of the few natural rock pile sites in Estabrook Woods and took a few pictures. I wanted to come before there was too much undergrowth. In fact I did see a few new piles - mostly low piles on support boulders at the edge of a wetland. This was new: And here another from the same area. There are ten or so piles like this.
The thing about a rock pile underfoot on a path is that it is a clue that there might be other piles nearby. In this case we are at the edge of a site with piles sparsely distributed down a slope and around a wetland.
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The thing about a rock pile underfoot on a path is that it is a clue that there might be other piles nearby. In this case we are at the edge of a site with piles sparsely distributed down a slope and around a wetland.
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