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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.
A Book about Rock Piles
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- Waking Up on Turtle Island
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- Larry Harrop
- Two Headwaters
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- Historical Writings on US Antiquities
- Traces In the Woods
- Ceremonial Stoneworks of the NorthEast
- Rock Piles of Northeast CT
- Pre-historic stone works in the Town of Catskill
- A New England Woodland
- Stone Wings
- The People of One Fire
- INSIDE NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR ARCHAEOLOGY
- Tispaquin's Revenge
- Menotomy Maps
- My Red Schoolhouse
- Bay States - the Bay Circuit Trail
- Rhode Island Footprints
- Derek Gunn's Amazing Massachusetts
- Relics of the Ancients
- Indian Stones/Cairns/Intentions
- Fort Devens Stone Wall MAP [PDF]
- STUPID SHEET
- Stone Ruins, Cellar Walls
- Hi Tor Stone Monuments
- Concord Lithics
- Indian Rockpiles by Peter Waksman
- Lithic Roxborough
- Chenango Archaeologists
- New England Megaliths
- Heritage Daily
- New England Antiquities Research Association (NEARA)
- Stone Cairns of West -Central Texas
- Mojave Desert Blog
- Native American Research and Preservation, Inc
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- A site by a brook at "The Desert" - Marlborough, MA
- More of those fish traps (?) from Quantas Airlines...
- Near the Ice Pond- Beebee Woods Falmouth, MA
- Somewhere in Stow
- On the fringes of a favorite site in Tyngsboro
- "Upper" site in Tyngsboro
- Taiwanese Fish trap
- Within earshot of the gurgling brook - the Desert ...
- A "U" structure facing west
- Abulsme album - nice petroforms in the snow
- Franklin NY Cairn and others from Norman Muller
- Archeology in Newfoundland and Labrador
- Friends of Pine Hawk
- Friends of Bear Paw, Big Hole & Canyon Creek Battl...
- A favorite picture of a rock-on-rock
- Commemorative Cairns in Saskatchewan (not ceremonial)
- Saskatchewan Erratics
- Group Walk in Estabrook Woods
- The Educated Horse - Camp Acton, Acton MA
- Mound links from the Megalithic Portal
- Unexplored hill in Tyngsboro
- Unexplored hill on the northern border of Westford
- Carlise site - Dec 2000
- Native Stones list of links
- Possible Bird Effigies
- Light posting after a weekend with no finds
- Cairns in the arctic (not Inukshuk)
- Paper announcement - sent in by Fred Martin
- No Comment
- Some stone wall videos
- More neeto arrrowheads
- Hardaway Dalton
- Stark Point
- A Boxborough-Harvard conservation land - from May ...
- Impressive split wedged rocks from Stow Conservat...
- Re-evaluating the risk of vandalism
- A collapsed chamber beside Rt 3?
- The Washington Stone in Holliston, MA
- Ancient World Blog
- The Westford Knight in the news
- High rock-on-rocks
- Northern Kissacook Hill - Westford, MA
- Dolmen Doldrums - Flavin's Corner
- Happy Birthday to this blog
- Old stone rows on Potash Hill - Hudson, MA
- Map of Sharon CT site from Brent Colley
- New Blog about rock piles and stone walls in Nova ...
- Stone Seat in the Wall
- Rock Piles in Sharon, CT - from Brent Colley
- Arizona Rock Piles
- The Ordering of Towns - H. Morse Payne in the NEAR...
- More poking around on Google re "Hassanemesit Woods"
- Archeology at Hassenemessit - From the Grafton Daily
- King Phillip's Woods - Sudbury MA
- The Stoneworked spring and other new articles by T...
- A few more nice pics from the Tyngsboro site
- More about a site in Groton
- A classic pile gap pile
- Small Chamber In Exeter, RI
- An Archeological survey in Indiana
- Perched boulder
- Rock pile site age chronologically and site half-life
- Old Maps at UCONN - from Brent Colley
- Object on a rock
- What is this?
- Last weekend's stone seat review
- New thinking about the Mooring-stone theory
- A little shelter
- A small "U"-shaped seat with modern artifacts.
- More of the "Outcrop" on a hill in Groton, MA (con...
- The day after Christmas on a hill in Groton
- Large Platform Cairn from Tyngsboro
- A tale of two big rock piles - wishes frustrated a...
- More on the Queen's Cairns
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6 comments :
OK, I'll bite. It looks intriguing. What is it? Where is it? How big is the interior? And how is it constructed?
Norman
There is a small shelter very much like this one along the Tippecansett Trail near Beach Pond south of Rte. 165 in Exeter, RI not far from the CT line and the Pachaug State Forest. The stonework is more elaborate and taller, but it's the same idea -- a rock overhang/shelter with a wall of stonework in front of it.
Norman:
It is on private property, I'll email you in person about its location. You can see it is about 12'x6' and it is made from the local rock.
Peter
Stone walls in front of rock shelters are very common in New England. The oldest example was from the Flagg Swamp Rockshelter in Westborough, MA, and was dated to the Archaic Period. The wall and the shelter were thoroughly recorded, but both were unfortunately destroyed to make way for an off ramp for I495.
Other dripline walls have been reported from CT -- all of them built by Native Americans.
An old rant of mine was "The Indian Cave," as it's called locally, on the NEARA website: http://www.neara.org/macsween/cave.html, where I give reasons to believe "The Cave" might have been a sweatlodge, since there exists references to caves (or cells)as in CT (Pissepunk) and RI ("Pe'suponck / sweatlodge," translated by Roger Williams).
Is there water nearby that could have been a plunge pool?
Tim
No water nearby.
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