Those cairns that Don Windsor found in Chenago Co, NY, remind me of some I saw in Hallstead, PA, which is probably not far from the site Don found. See attached.
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They are not too far apart...about 30 or 40 miles from Hallstead, and they are north/south of each other. Don mentioned that the Ludlow Creek cairns were built in a "spiral" fashion. One of them has a standing stone placed firmly in the top. The DEC officer called it a "sundial", Don said. However, Don also cautioned that it could not be a sundial because the thin edge was not north/south (it is more like east/west).
They do look very similar! I didn't see the possible sundial, but there are chest-high columnar cairns with niches, well-built stone walls (these seemed most likely historic to me, but I didn't see anything definitive), lots of amorphous piles, isolated wall segments, and a cluster of small, well stacked cairns with small niches.
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