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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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- 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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- Rock piles at the foot of a ridge - Wolbach Farm S...
- Owl Rock at Spring Lot - from FFC
- Happy Holidays!
- Off to vacation
- Early Morning at the Wolbach Farm - Sudbury MA
- Rock pile visible from Rt 20 Sudbury, MA
- Near Nobscott Hill - Subdury/Framingham MA
- Remember the fall?
- Well in a wetland - Concord
- Rocks sitting on their haunches
- Apologies for not blogging
- Swedish perched boulders
- Nobscott Hill, Sudbury/Framingham
- Pet Memorial at Nobscott Hill, Sudbury/Framingham
- Indiana History - rock piles as a warning?
- Weird Pennsylvania by Matt Lake, Mark Moran, Mark...
- Rock pile poem
- Rock piles for "pikiavish"
- The Megaliths on Apsheron Peninsula
- Stone Mounds - from Mysterious Ancient America by ...
- Time for bright orange clothing
- The Nipsachuk story - up to date
- Stone chamber - Sharon MA
- More details about Nipsachuk
- Some photos and text from the Berkshire Woods
- Projo.com - The Providence Journal gives a Nipshac...
- Some small rock pile sites near Golden Run Rd - Bo...
- See the brook begin to flow
- Hollows on the hillside
- Un-rock pile related: Graffiti
- Rock Pile site by a swamp by Rt 495
- A curious rock pile next to hollows in the ground
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5 comments :
What about Reading? Has that been explored?
I used to live on Main St. in the late 70s, right between Forest St. and Franklin St. Just beyond Lafayette Rd. was undeveloped land. It's not that way now, but all through that area were rock piles.
Reading your blog is like taking a walk through the memories of my youth. I had always been told these piles were discarded by colonial farmers. There were rock walls all throughout the forest, as well as spirit gates and other croppings.
As young boys, what we didn't attribute to colonialists we contributed to "teenagers" — those mysterious otherworldly beings who caused so much trouble. We just assumed they piled the rocks on top of each other, though we never understood why.
I revisited that forest in 1989 and the development had begun, but I was able to visit old haunts. I even found a walking stick leaning up against a tree, bent with time, that had been there since 1979.
Here's a Google Earth link that will pinpoint the area for you. There still seems to be undeveloped land there. Once there was a town trail off of Franklin St. that went south into the forest, complete with board walk. I've tagged where I used to live (point A) and showed a path to a point (B) just south of a clearing we called "The Valley" though it was a meadow. Beyond that powerlines and more forest to the North. There used to be old firelanes throughout the forest there. I have no idea what remains there now. I live in Utah and haven't been back since 1989.
Here be rockpiles?
Reading Town Forest
Douglas Cootey
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You have nothing to apologize for, Peter. This is still one of the most frequently updated blogs I visit.
Thanks Douglas. I know where I will be heading next weekend. The truth is I went to Reading three weekends ago and saw nothing in a couple of places, so I had written off the area. I'll try to follow your directions.
Well, I'll be thrilled if you find anything. I fear the developers planted houses over them, however. Good luck!
Douglas Cootey
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✍ The Splintered Mind\ - Overcoming AD/HD & Depression With Lots Of Humor And Attitude
I looked more carefully at the map and I think I did already go to that spot. There might be a corner of the conservation land that I did not get to but I covered most of it and did not see anything. There are new houses in there as well.
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