Year in Review - 2018

The year 2018 was slow, with fewer new sites than in the past. I am exploring less, the drives are getting longer, and I moved my base from Concord to the Cape. These days, I only explore on weekends when I make the drive back and forth.

New sites were reported from Georgia and South Carolina and, generally, public awareness has continued to expand, both at the state level and the town level. The Native Americans and Doug Harris have been rolling out aggressive outreach campaigns.

-- SITES --

Feb-March:
(near) Nod Brook Groton

Howard Brook in Northboro - some fine sites along the brooks of the "Fish and Wildlife" area, south of Mt Pisgah.

"Debunking Stone Wall Myths"
Excellent argument on "crazy" stone walls not being post-colonial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55jQq9M0iiw

April:
South Justice Hill - the best and only large site I found this year.

There were several smaller sites in the valley between the hill and S. Princeton center:

June:

I start exploring to the south, in place like Foxboro and Stoughton:

July:
I explore southern Franklin State Forest:

Still further south at the edge of Wrentham: - mounds (still) have hollows:

September, more Wrentham [no more hollows]:

October:

I get a little miffed about the spread of fake history:

http://rockpiles.blogspot.com/2018/10/indigenous-landscape-creating-new.html

I start calling damaged mounds "Wrentham Pavements":

and

and (in November)

They seem to all be like this, from Wrentham on south. However, fresher mounds were still to be seen in that area.

December:
Finally, a major site is seen, shown to me by reader "bd" in Wrentham State Forest. It has many varieties of "mound-with-hollow", mostly of the mid-sized sort. From classic:

To multi-chambered:

Also, the kind of "pavement" I am have come to expect in this part of the state:

[or perhaps not? The typical "Wrentham" style is a pile spilling over the edge of a bluff, above a wetland.]

-- SITES OUSIDE NEW ENGLAND --

Cairns and Copper Mines: Drummond Wisconsin. http://rockpiles.blogspot.com/2018/04/outlook-cairn-drummond-wisconsin.html

Chatahoochee National Forest:

Pickens County, SC:

http://rockpiles.blogspot.com/2018/12/from-reader-dg-i-thought-you-might-find.html

Some links:
Finger Lakes area of NY 
A Wall Site in Bartow Co., GA
Poconos Rock Piles 
Another Stone Complex (GA) 
Rock Piles on a Farm in Saskatchewan 
Ontario "Megaliths" 
Mounds with hollows - headwaters of the Susquehan... 
ALEC MOUNTAIN STONE CIRCLE – NACOOCHEE VALLEY 
Negwegon Stone Piles - Michigan 

-- PUBLIC AWARENESS --

"Let the Landscape Speak:"

Doug Harris's schedule gets filled: