tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post1640746778485198951..comments2024-03-28T19:28:10.100-04:00Comments on <b>Rock Piles</b>: A large old mound in Harvard, above the headwaters of Great Brook.pwaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16647940752050937588noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-31817794999787617852016-03-16T16:47:47.715-04:002016-03-16T16:47:47.715-04:00Tim: the wall was following the logic of the water...Tim: the wall was following the logic of the water. It surrounded the top of the wetland,into two branches climbing the ridge with my "mound" between the two and my side, and going off somewhere else on the other. I did not look more closely at the wall except in relation to the mound.pwaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647940752050937588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-59331401172644405742016-03-16T16:42:49.978-04:002016-03-16T16:42:49.978-04:00While writing this article, I repeatedly wanted to...While writing this article, I repeatedly wanted to show a map of all the other large, decrepit, mounds sites I have found along the same land-form (the inner part of Oak Hill). For example there are similar mounds just east of the Harvard University Observatory Lookout Tower at the edge, before the slope drops off. There are a few others here and there in Harvard and there is another bunch down pwaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647940752050937588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-81653463503488716922016-03-16T11:01:50.977-04:002016-03-16T11:01:50.977-04:00Coincidence: we both photographed two curving &quo...Coincidence: we both photographed two curving "serpentine or snake-like" stone walls. I posted a view of what might be another One Horn. Did you get up close to any of the large boulders in the wall?Tim MacSweeneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517237193572593390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-35624796095937811192016-03-16T10:21:33.236-04:002016-03-16T10:21:33.236-04:00"Mention of Bare Hill is found in records as ..."Mention of Bare Hill is found in records as early as 1657, and at first as "the bare hill." The name was presumably descriptive, as were Still River and Plumtrees Meadow, which were introduced in details of land allotments about the same date. It was a custom of the Indians every November, when the weeds and grass were driest, to set fires about their villages. These swept throughTim MacSweeneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517237193572593390noreply@blogger.com