Blacksmith Shop Road Site - Falmouth MA

One of the hard to get to sites in Falmouth is back of Brick Kiln Rd. I went back to re-visit the place and explored its surroundings more carefully. Unfortunately my camera battery had run dry and I got no pictures. I walked around for an hour, trying to get a sense of the site layout and doing a little pile grooming - especially where the rock pile was so covered with plant growth that it had become completely covered over. In that case I sometimes make an opening down to a couple of rocks so, when it rains and they clean off, the presence of a rock pile is hinted at. We can get into the ethics of rock pile cleaning but at the moment I just want to mention the context: I was walking east along the edge of the woods and hit a stone wall with a pile next it. Following the wall uphill led back to the site I knew and there was a kind of hill configuration nestling the site - a bit like a kettle hole.

So a couple of days later I was on my way west on Blacksmith Shop Rd (returning from an unsuccessful exploration) and, just before it joins the Service Rd to the wastewater facility, saw a small valley with a stone wall and thought it was a likely spot to take a quick look. Stepping into the woods and over to the wall I was thinking I had been here before and that there ought to be a pile right next to the wall. A moment later I found that pile:
This is actually a pretty big pile - ~three feet high, ~eight feet across. Its placement next to the wall, and the way the valley gave way to surrounding hill reminded me of the layout of the Brick Kiln Rd site, so I followed the wall a bit uphill. Previously at this location I had only seen the single pile next to the wall, so it was a happy instinct that got me poking around more carefully in the bushes nearby. There was a rock pile uphill along the wall
and then two or three more piles deep in the bushes. You had to be looking hard.
I enjoy the way they look in the blueberries. I feel that, like other sites in Falmouth, usually inside kettle holes, these sites are basically calendrical.I hope time will tell. Now that some (or perhaps most?) of these sites have been located, maybe I can map them or someone can study them and learn more about them. For now it is mostly just an aesthetic and the pleasure of finding a site. Here is a view down into the valley:
Too much overgrowth to see more than one or two piles at a time.