When you see something like this from a distance, all you can think is "this has got to be good"...
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From a different angle, the rock in the foreground has a strange look to it.
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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.
5 comments :
My first thought was, "how was the hole made?" Is it natural, artificial, or a combination of the two? Are there any tool marks visible? It certainly looks like a turtle carapace to me.
The outer edge of the hole looks worked, but the inside looks worn.
Looking at the rock surface on the upper left, the rock seems to have a natural tendency to develop scalloped breaks; different from the main cleavage planes.
Are those clumps of trees growing out of rock piles here and there??
It's possible, but I didn't nose around there enough to say for sure. I could feel rocks all over (under foot) near the boulder. It's hard to say if they were organized into piles because it felt like they were everywhere. There are obvious rock piles just a bit over to the west and north of the turtle boulder, where there are fewer trees (and less leaf cover on the ground). I have some pictures of those, and will post soon.
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