Howard Brook, Northboro

If I don't blog about this, I am going to forget. So you see that brook going uphill into the "Fish and Wildlife" area southwest of Mt Pisgah? I thought it was a place likely to have mounds and likely to have structures where the tributaries converge. Went in and, somewhere uphill from A, I decided to get back down to the brook [the feet are always betraying me and pulling me uphill even when I know I should stay next to the brook and go uphill along the brook] leading me to explore an inter-brook area near A (standing stone, a couple piles, faint hints). Then I swung deliberately uphill to around B, where I started traversing right to left (east-to-west) across the tops of the different brooks until I got to C. There, there was a hint of a pile and, one thing leading to another, a mound just south of C. Then on down the brook to D where there was another mound [one I pictured recently with "sluice ways" in the brook] and across to yet a different tributary at D2, where there was another similar mound. Then back south, downstream to the car.

At A Heading down to the brook:

In a little wet pocket:

 

At A between the brooks:

Interesting:

Noticeable standing stone:

 In the distance:

I am astonished I did not notice that chunk of quartz until now, looking at the pictures. There were a number of small structures in an area between the brooks.  

Now let's get up to C (skipping occasional other things)

I noticed this digression in the wall:

Looking around, there was a rock pile directly out from this place in the wall. (Looking back):

Then you could see other things off to the side running in parallel with the wall, making this above pile one of a series of 'satellites' above a large mound (here we are looking back now towards the wall):

Now over to D (I showed this previously):

As noted previously (here), this looks across the brook to a larger pile. It seemed huge at first because I had been seeing only low ground piles during the earlier walk. So here it is, with other features behind it:

Here is the one in back:

Looking back from the valley of the next little brook (upstream from D2)

Continuing downstream (below D2 I guess)

[Walking through the gap seems pretty evidently indicated, given the trail through there.]

And down to another mound next to that brook:

Closeup:

It reminds me of a mound next to a brook at the top of the Falulah (being deliberately vague):

I note that most of the interesting features are on the west side of the brooks.