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.
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Hog Swamp outcrop
Driving south on Rt 495 in Bolton/Berlin MA, there is a cut through the bedrock on the right a short ways (perhaps 1/2 mile) before you get to the Rt 62 exit. I have been trying to figure out how to get to this outcrop from the land side, but it appeared to be surrounded by the swamp there, called "Hog Swamp". I realized, though, that I could go to end of Quaker Lane and sneak through backyards. I actually knocked on a door for permission but, getting no answer, I snuck around without it. The area I got to was not as isolated as I had hoped, as there was an old stone causeway in one place leading over to the higher ground from Quaker Lane. I figure the Quakers had used this ground systematically. Nevertheless, possibly because of Indians coming back afterwards, there were a couple of little signs of ceremony on the southeastern side of the rise of land cut by the highway - a couple of rock piles a few yards from the highway.Seems like there is always a little something, if you look for it.Just for my own recollections: there was a brown creeper (a small bird) that wouldn't leave me alone when I got to the highpoint. It is fun being superstitious and I imagined it was telling me to look closer - which I did until I found the couple of rock piles.
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