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.
Monday, December 03, 2007
Odds and ends in the Harvard Woods
This is out northeast of the horse meadows - an area full of interesting stonework.A curious little structure, probably broken:Another view:How about this. It sure looks man made:I came across what looked like a little one-person room made against a stone wall from rocks borrowed from the wall. I guess you could roof this with branches although there was no sign that anyone had.And others:There are some ponds or lobes of one pond back in there with bedrock ridges separating the lobes. In one place a wall follows the bedrock ridge towards the water, then ends but a smidgeon of it continues as a small rock pile in one place and a perched arrangement at the very end. Here is how the ridge ends, embelished with placed rocks: Here is a closeup of that last arrangement: And then, short stretches of stone wall, are getting very familiar. This one ends in a standing stone.
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