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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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Blogs and Other Links
- 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
Blog Archive
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- More Near Regis College - Weston MA
- End Stones
- Somewhere near Regis College - Weston, MA
- Short stretches of wall - Gates Pond Rd Berlin, MA
- An Indian Cemetery in Lakeville, MA
- Above the meeting of two brooks - NY
- Propped Boulders, Cairns and Niches from Lyme CT
- Equinox Sunset 2009
- There was so much going on back then (May 08)
- well....you can always find a couple of rock piles...
- A roadside attraction - Carlisle, MA
- Small late-stage Dalton Hardaway Point
- Madawaska River area in Ontario, Canada
- Canada's Stonehenge
- Mountain top prayer seat?
- A single pile for a weekend of looking
- A couple of hints near the Sudbury Valley Trustees...
- Perched Rock - Acton/Carlisle MA
- Near Lover's Lane - Southborough, MA
- Seeing into the woods when there is snow on the gr...
- Seeking information about a site in Franklin, MA
- 022 as Possible Turtle
- Marker piles from between oaks.
- You know the weather and the footing are still not...
- More vanishing rock piles - Bolton, MA
- Roadside Attractions - Tyngsboro, MA
- A roadside rock pile - Tyngsboro, MA
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3 comments :
In the case of the stone down next to the river, I agree this is a feature that seems particularly ceremonial. But I am not sure about some of the other "End Stones" you show. Generally, when the end of a wall is squared off I figure it for a European sort of touch. So I guess I am thinking there is more than one kind of "End Stone". Good topic.
I put up a 2nd post, with another view of the Lower Falls End Stone - with the stone beside it more visible. All these rows either turn into or are connected to zigzag rows, as does another liner row that stops at the same branch of the river to the NE...
Looking more carefully, I am starting to agree. These walls are not squared off in the European manner but rather end with a small standing stone.
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