I just posted a site that Norman visited.
http://rockpiles.ws/blog/index
I'm sure a lot of people would enjoy seeing this beauty.
The full description with pictures is here.
http://rock-piles.com/fahnesto
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.
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Right on! Especially to the last few sentences.
Great! Beautiful site. Isn't this near the area of the Putnam County stone chambers?
This is the first time I've seen stonework in this part of NY. I believe there are stone chambers nearby, but they don't interest me as much as the unusual stonework that I saw.
Norman
I've seen some of the chambers, and you're right. What you've shown us is more interesting. I didn't have the sense at the chambers that I was looking at the same kind of stuff, made with the same intention, that I've seen at other sites. So much has been made, in some circles, of those chambers at Putnam, yet this sort of thing has gone relatively unnoticed.
Fig 2 in my article on the Fahnestock stone features is curious the way the stone cairn climbs the side of the boulder to the right. I should have studied this more carefully, because I wouldn't be surprised if the stones don't trace a crack in the boulder. If stones could not be inserted in cracks, they were often placed over them, symbolically bridging the two halves. This could be the case in this instance.
Norman
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