In the fall of 2008, we were contacted by the West Virginia State Park Service for a "second opinion" on 173 stone structures found in 11 groups within the bounds of Stonewall Resort State Park (SRSP) in Roanoke W.VA. We conducted a detailed study based on photographs, documentation, and maps of the sites provided by a contractor hired to map them. As of much March 2010, the state has officially acknowledge the existence of these sites. An article about the sites appeared in the March 2010 issue of the state's tourism magazine "Wonderful West Virginia." the article is available online at http://www.wonderfulwv.com/
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Sound like someone should be blogging West VA; rock piles keep being found there but, each time, it seems they are unaware of other similar finds in the state.
The combination of cairns and terrace walls at Stonewall reminds me of the Track Rock Gap site in northwest Georgia, which was surveyed and documented ten years ago. There, one of the cairns and a wall segment were dated to the Mississippian Period, or about 1000 B.P. Stonewall may fit that pattern.
It certainly looks like familiar material. But I never saw anything like photo #1 with a slope covered with tiers of platforms - except it is a wee bit like a marker pile site. A grander, larger version of one.
I meant photo#1 of the "Stonewalls" alhbum.
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