There are small piles which, in some cases, are lined up with each other - three in a row along a line. They look like this:
Note the quartz in front of this last one.
There are also some larger "platform" piles:Consider these features:
- ground piles in lines
- occasional use of quartz
- some larger platforms
- signs of burnt rock
- on a slope
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When Chelmsford was first founded in 1655, the Robbins Hill area was set aside for the Native Americans, who had improved the area by creating crop fields there. The Massachusetts Bay Colony planned to permit the Native Americans to continue to use this land until other land could be improved by felling the trees and breaking the ground and creating crop fields elsewhere.
This was evidently done at some time, and the land became common land to the town. In 1697, three men, Cap Bowers, Ephrem Hildreth, and Samuel Foster, were selected to devise a plan for keeping a flock of sheep in a public way upon Robbins Hill.
As far as i know, this land remains in the ownership of the Town of Chelmsford to this day, as there is a water tower on top of the hill.
There were two limestone quarries on the hill used for the manufacture of lime. So perhaps the burned stones are remains of a kiln itself, or leftover from the burning of limestone.
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