Friday, November 26, 2010

Southern Nagog Hill, Conant Brook - Acton MA

Bit of a site there. Mainly interesting, to me, because I crossed a stone-lined brook from east to west to get to this little knoll. On approach, it seemed like an optimum sort of place to find rock piles.

Here is a view towards the rock piles from outside the stone-wall:Perhaps eight rock piles. These piles tended to have a single larger rock with smaller ones around:Like this:And these:I may have found this site long ago, or perhaps not. The woods are full of small white pine saplings and have a featureless lack of personality. Also there is a lot of unexplored woods in there.

A couple of other things from walking in this southern part of Nagog Hill. A wall corner pile:
I thought this next was interesting, a depression in the ground with a single small standing stone.
Like a grave.

1 comment :

Anonymous said...

I have recently visited this site. This site looks a lot like the ones around the stone chamber about a mile away. Small stones piled on top of a large stone. I don't buy that all of these stone walls were created by farmers to clear there fields. Some of the stones piles don't make sense like semi circles or the walls are to close together to be convenient for plowing.