Today I went out to Mt Elam, and though I was done in by the sea of mountain laurel (grade C according to your scale in “Shadow under the rock”) I did manage to find some interesting sites well away from the brook that you discuss.
Of greatest interest was a large pile with one obvious hollow and a second less defined depression. A beautiful diamond shaped quartz rock was along the rim of the main hollow. Next to this was a row of mostly buried rock stacks, each with one large flat rock atop a couple layers of smaller ones. I dug down to reveal the stack beneath, and I have included a diagram.
Nearby were two other piles with hollows, each with a single quartz stone somewhere on top.
Here are the photos of the mound, hollow, quartz stone (loosely Manitou shaped) and one of the (slightly) excavated piles from the row. 
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The 2nd photo shows a well-defined inner "hollow" that was built directly into the original structure of the mound. Hopefully this dismisses the general assumption that the hollow was from later vandalism.
James O here:
I'm curious if anyone else has observed a similar row of rock stacks alongside a pile like this. They were spaced about 15 or 20 ft apart at a very regular interval.
James O again, can't seem to figure out how to give myself a username,
I have also noticed that 20 degrees north alignment a few times with rock piles. It could be nothing, but if that has any potential meaning I would love to know. It doesn't seem to line up with any historical "magnetic north"
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