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.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
On the fringes of a favorite site in Tyngsboro
I have written before about this place. The main feature is an aperture pile with a hole pointed directly at a propped boulder. You can just make out the aperture in this pile. The next picture shows the boulder you can see through the aperture: I turns out there are quite a lot of piles near the aperture - It is worth identifying the place as an individual site. Here are a couple of other nearby features: And there was at least one more substantial pile (damaged). This is Bruce McAleer. He noticed a large number of "pairs"at this site. I like this example:
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