I am pushing through the laurels on a hillside in Leominster and come to a big messy pile. Is it just discarded rock?
Not really. On the one hand, these are not random sized rocks but selected for as a certain size - not too large to carry nor too small. On another hand this is not at any kind of "angle of repose"; and finally there are lots of other little rock piles in the vicinity of this larger one. You can see some piling on the boulder to the right, and we'll look around more in a moment:
[Let me digress briefly. To argue this is a ceremonial pile, you might also say: "why would they clear a field with a big pile in the center of the field when there are stone walls and discard piles along the walls and no reason to depart from that as a rock disposal strategy". I think this argument is self defeating: if you keep bringing up field clearing as a hypothesis, you are keeping that hypothesis alive rather than killing it with neglect. The right way to defeat a hypothesis is to support a better one.]Taking a look at this pile from a different angle, there is a piece of quartz (click to see where the red arrow is pointing):
closer:
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A nice piece. This was the only quartz I saw on the hillside, although I did not look carefully. A solitary piece of quartz in a rock pile is a familiar pattern. Here is another view of the quartz (it is on the right):
Would you agree that there is a somewhat circular depression (a "hollow") with the quartz on the right hand lip of the depression? The pile was a mess and I could not make much of its structure but I was hoping to see hollows.Let's look around some more in the vicinity. Smaller piles all around:
Weary old things.
In spite of my bravado I was still doubting if this was a ceremonial site. The site does follow a plan I have been preoccupied with lately: a central large "mound" with hollows, surrounded by smaller outliers [see here]. But I persisted, spiraling outward from the center and seeing more and more little ones. Then I push through some brush and..."woo hoo!"
For me, that is a nice looking mound. We'll take a closer look at it in a subsequent post. At this point in the walk, I stopped being uncertain about the site.
4 comments :
It looks like three orbs on that first picture.
Some kind of lense affect I would think - perhaps a drop of water. Is there some other interpretation? It happened again with the flowers pictures in a later post.
I see that. Not that I am an expert by any means - but the other one also looks like an orb to me.
Every once in a while I get some orb like shots - like last weekend. But that was snow and most can be explained away. But without sounding like I am a nutcase when it comes to this subject. I have one clear as a bell ghost shot from a site (if you want to see it let me know and I'll send it to you privately).
I've experienced on more than one occasion feeling very uncomfortable and at times very unwelcomed in some of the areas I explore.
Do these orbs only show up when it is raining? Seems like a simple experiment: put a drop of water on your lens.
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