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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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Blogs and Other Links
- Waking Up on Turtle Island
- Secret Landscapes
- Larry Harrop
- Two Headwaters
- Laurel Hill Walks
- 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 small propped up "table" on a boulder
- Trailside vignettes from Another Undisclosed Location
- Another un-disclosed location
- An Unusual Crescent-Shaped Cairn and the Significa...
- Dead Swamp
- Wandering around the edges of South Manoosnoc
- More on Red Stones and Prayer Seats in Foxborough ...
- Some more Larry Harrop Pictures
- Foxboro State Forest - From Norman Mulller
- Caral Video
- Rock piles in the brook
- Heading west on Rt 2 - to the hills of Leominster
- Two distinct types of rock piles at a marker pile ...
- Montville Chamber
- Long Hill - Leominster MA
- South Manoosnoc - Leominster MA
- Clark's Gully NY
- More from that Monroe County site
- Nashoba Hill - Westford, MA
- Monroe County, PA; a small site, part one
- Wedged Rock- Westborough, MA
- Kanape Brook Trail
- A small Westborough Rock Pile Site
- Couldn't blog
- An embarrassing moment
- Bayberry Hill Leominster
- Pennsylvania: Interesting Stone Sites on the Net
- Shapes and colors
- Speaking of pile-gap-pile...
- The Persistence of the Mound Builder's Culture amo...
- More to report but no energy for it
- A small wetland site
- A few more elements from near the Ashokan
- More of the site near the Ashokan
- Name that structure
- Short stretch of stone wall - Hopkinton State Forest
- Another look at that rocking stone
- Platform Pile - Hopkinton MA
- Ulster County, NY, near the Ashokan Spillway
- Rocking Stone - Hopkinton, MA
- Goodbye to the hilltop - final vistas
- Rock piles on the Ledge outcrops
- The hilltop at last
- Approaching a larger rock pile site
- Small Stone "U" Seat - Hopkinton State Forest
- FFC wanted me to show you this
- Videos from a Hilltop rock pile site
- Hopkinton State Forest - another appetizer
- Rock piles and Maiden-hair ferns at the foot of Ba...
- Big Old Maple Tree on Barret's Hill Bolton, MA
- Down along Danforth Brook - Bolton, MA
- Feel like checking out a hilltop for us?
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12 comments :
Is is possible that these are just ordinary rocks, like the rest of the rocks.
No it is not possible. Your eyes can easily see they are clustered, positioned with respect to each other, forming the remnants of an outline. A probabilistic argument is possible but why bother? Use your eyes.
It's a pretty cool-looking grouping, but I can't guess what answer you're looking for. Looks like an interesting landscape, from the curve of stones to the pair of matching boulders to the relationships among the boulders in the background.
If I were to try to guess, I suppose this could be a prayer seat?
boobs
Hey anonymous: You are welcome to not visit again.
For those who wish to follow the entire discussion, know that demonstrating rock piles existence versus random phenomena is quite possible but requires discussion of context and probabilities. Overall it is kind of a dull subject which proves nothing to the "anti-boobs" anyway and does little to encourage people who already can see what is there using their eyes. It is not easy math and I see no reason to pursue it.
It is great being an amateur, not having to anwer to anyone, being stung but not particularly slowed down by people like this "anoymous".
And by the way, I know your URL!
I was going to say, "Those are Stone Structures," but I won't, after seeing all the above comments...
I'm thinking pile-space-pile, if the smaller stones in front of the boulder to the right were stacked, but have fallen down. However, I've had pile-gap-pile on the brain lately (ever since that 'rock pile joined to cairn' which you pointed out to me was probably a pile-space-pile with the left cairn collapsed. I think you are right about that one).
I am seeing them too.
I was going to say a prayer seat that has mostly been disturbed with stones having been moved around, and with the boulder in back serving as a back support. Then I noticed what seems to be a thin, recumbent manitou stone highlighted and under the dead branch. What is it all about? I haven't the vaguest idea.
Norman
some ceremonial space-- small enough from what it looks, for just one or two people.
There's also the feminine implication of the stone pair.
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