From Curt Hoffman:
Since
business has been a bit slow on the rockpiles blog the past few weeks, I
thought I’d share a few images from sites in the Ashland Town Forest –
where I know you’ve [PWAX] wandered. I discovered these sites (with the
exception of the split wedged boulder) in previous trips, but we took
advantage of the nice(r) weather today to get some photos.
The
first site is off the orange trail. It is a large (ca 10’ high)
standing boulder, which appears to me to have been deliberately shaped
so as to create a curved area on the left side. A viewer standing on
what I think may have been the foresight stone and looking uphill at it
would see summer solstice sunset, reasonably accurately (40 degrees west
of magnetic north). There is a small possible stone pile at the base
of the boulder.
The
second site is beside the red trail. I first noticed a simple
rock-on-rock pile, and then I took a closer look at the stone row behind
it. The row is not straight, but is rather sinuous, has an azimuth of
about 30 degrees east of magnetic north, and at a certain point it takes
a bend, heads magnetic north, and ends in a swamp.
The
third site is on the margin of Wildcat Hill, off the blue trail. It is
a large rock outcrop which has been split in several places. But the
most prominent split has several rocks wedged between the split
portions.
The
last site is on the yellow trail, at a point where it turns onto a cart
path. It is a small stone pile, and may be of recent origin. But
there is a short stone row on the opposite side of the path which goes
nowhere. There is also a split filled boulder nearby, but we couldn’t
relocate that today
Below is a bit of USGS map showing the locations of these sites, as well as some of the ones you’ve recorded. The boulder is 1146; the sinuous stone row is 1029; the split boulder is 1160, and the stone pile is 1013.
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