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.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
A rock pile marking a boundary
At one hilltop I visited last weekend I found an isolated pile with a standing stone. I know for a fact that this hilltop is the corner of a property - on my topo it is a corner of one small piece of Leominster State Forest. If I did not know this was a boundary corner, I might have compared this to the piles with standing "manitou" stones we saw last week from Norman Muller. Note the blue tags on the tree behind: There was even a hint of quartz in the pile - someone added a couple of pieces. Nice even though not ceremonial:
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Anonymous
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Is there a pecked inscription on the standing stone?
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Is there a pecked inscription on the standing stone?
Norman
I did not notice but, now that you mention it, it looks like a "P" which might relate to the town of Princeton.
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