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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.
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- 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 rock pile and two caves from Groton MA
- A large cairn found by Larry Harrop and Bob Miner
- A Bennington VT Pyramid?
- “On the Archaeology of Stone Piles and a Late Arch...
- Gender Analyzer (not rock pile related)
- Quartz at the junction of stone walls
- Rock piles by a swamp by the highway - Rt 495 Harvard
- Stone Circles next to boulders
- Coming up to a rock pile site (Harvard, MA)
- 1934
- "Crude Tool" Again
- Overlooking a pond
- A small rock-on-rock grouping - Harvard, MA
- A Rock
- Rock pile - a constellation?
- Revisiting An Old Friend - Usquepaug, RI
- More pics from Stone Ruins, Cellar Walls
- Lithic Roxborough
- Rock piles and a stone wall - NY
- Effigy Mounds on U of Wisconsin campus
- Stone Ruins, Cellar Walls
- Lenape Museum exhibit includes cairn photo
- Spruceton NY Cairn Site
- Douglas State Forest
- High Places
- Split Wedged Rock - Brown Rd Cons. Land, Harvard MA
- Woods West of Danforth Brook, Bolton MA
- Schaghticoke Tribal Nation-SIGN PETITION for Justice
- Keith writes in about a stone U structure he found...
- Rocking stone videos
- New Exeter, RI Site From Larry Harrop
- NY Mountaintop site - part 2
- NY Mountaintop site - part 1
- A little rock pile site near Stony Brook in southe...
- Stone Piers near Cherry Brook, Weston MA
- Barred Owl - Harvard, MA
- Coming up
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4 comments :
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Foster RI site from the farmstead on the Foster Tract at Parker Woodland? It all looks very familiar. I also want to be sure this isn't a new RI site.
That is absolutely right. I am wondering if anyone has really studied these particular structures before (the small chambers). I am sure very many people visit the cairn field in the Coventry part of the forest but I wonder if much attention has been paid to the farm site or if it is perhaps more often dismissed as all just post-colonial ruins. These structures really have me scratching my head. They are so very similar to some other chambers that I feel are very likely pre-colonial but they are right next to this foundation. If the chambers were there before the foundation was built, why wouldn't the builder have used the stones? If they were built at the same time as the foundation, is it a coincidence that the pedestaled boulder, cairns and other stonework are so close by?
Perhaps it was an Indian Farmer.
My brother and his wife rented the caretaker's house at Parker Woodland for many years. One of the most fascinating facts about that piece of property centers on the old saw mill ruins by Turkey Meadow Brook on the Coventry tract. It was the last building to be occupied in the area. Those ruins are very close to the main cairn site.
The saw mill is unique in that it was owned and operated by free men of color. It was locally known by generations of whites as, "ni**er saw mill." At that time in Rhode Island's history, very little racial distinction was drawn between African and Indian.
My theory has always been that the saw mill was owned and operated by Narragansetts who used the surrounding woodland and remaining stone structures to continue traditional ways. There's certainly no disputing that Narragansetts were the busiest stone masons in the state at that time. They may have been hired to build and supply all the homes in the area, from stone foundations to the wood that's long since rotted away from the cellar holes.
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