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This is about rock piles and stone mound sites in New England. A balance is needed between keeping them secret and making them public. Also arrowheads, stone tools and other surface archaeology.
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- Waking Up on Turtle Island
- Secret Landscapes
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- Laurel Hill Walks
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- Traces In the Woods
- Ceremonial Stoneworks of the NorthEast
- Rock Piles of Northeast CT
- Pre-historic stone works in the Town of Catskill
- A New England Woodland
- Stone Wings
- The People of One Fire
- INSIDE NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR ARCHAEOLOGY
- Tispaquin's Revenge
- Menotomy Maps
- My Red Schoolhouse
- Bay States - the Bay Circuit Trail
- Rhode Island Footprints
- Derek Gunn's Amazing Massachusetts
- Relics of the Ancients
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- Fort Devens Stone Wall MAP [PDF]
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- Stone Ruins, Cellar Walls
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- Concord Lithics
- Indian Rockpiles by Peter Waksman
- Lithic Roxborough
- Chenango Archaeologists
- New England Megaliths
- Heritage Daily
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- Spring Events about Rock Piles
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- A Quantitative Assessment of Stone Relics in a Wes...
- Black and White Stones (Woodbury CT)
- Ceremonial Stone Landscapes Presentation by Doug H...
- Where do blog visitors come from?
- Protective Strategies for Ceremonial Stone Structures
- A good read for a snowy day: Leo Pettipas's "The P...
- Behind the Grocery Store (Watertown CT)
- Rock Piles and Possible Rune Stones - Hillman, Min...
- Stand With Standing Rock (Greenfield MA)
- A New England Woodland
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- Patch Hill Boxboro
- Restoring the link to Fort Devens Stone Wall Map
- The corridor from Hobbs Brook up to Sandy Pond, Li...
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4 comments :
Intentionally or not, this gives the distinct impression of the large boulder carrying/harboring the smaller pile, not something that has occurred to me before. A beauty. Do you have any pictures from other sides?
One. I'll write up the site.
Nice. Makes me wonder, why anyone would go to the trouble to pile stones on top of the boulder? They could've easily been piled next to the stone, so there is an important reason for doing it. Maybe, someone(s) is trying to establish a relationship between the bedrock boulder, and the smaller stones that were bedrock themselves at one time. The stones and the boulder are now the same? They share power? Value? Potency? We are obviously being shown something.
This pile is adjacent to three larger "mounds with hollows". My current belief is that piles like this cast a shadow - over the mounds and other, smaller, nearby piles. This was, I believe, a calendrical ritual connected to the larger mounds.
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