Fieldstone cairns at the Werge Easement, Thompson, Ct.
November 4, 2017
November 4, 2017
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5 comments :
"Another explanation that is maybe not as romantic, but at least as viable, is that the site is a sort of rustic art installation constructed by bored Yankee farmers, less than 200 years ago. Farming in New England is a difficult business and early efforts at cultivating fields or improving pastures involved a lot of moving rocks out of the way. In general, fieldstone was used to make walls, or sometimes thrown into heaps in out of the way spots or at property lines. But, there wouldn't be anything stopping a farmer with a more creative disposition from sequestering his extra rocks in neat little cairns and towers around his property."
This explanation gave me a good chuckle. dc.
Thanks Tim. Good to read.
DC: I went and added the comment that Europeans never built piles like these. One could point out that "creativity" never managed to get to the European farmers, yet it happened over and over and over on New England farms.
"It is interesting to note that the Werge cairns and platforms occur in the neighborhood of perfectly ordinary stone walls from the 1800s," he writes. I want a look at those "perfectly ordinary stone walls!"
A perfectly ordinary stone wall near but not at the place: https://www.facebook.com/LastGreenValley/photos/a.114450135255324.10189.114209781946026/1609420605758262/?type=3
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