A Little More from Nova Scotia

Propped or Perched, Natural or Anthropogenic, linked by rows of cobbles and boulders of many shapes and sizes - some of these Boulders ( http://rockpiles.blogspot.com/2013/01/photos-by-abvhiael-crowley.html  )in Nova Scotia, photographed by Abvhiael Crowley, are certainly "of, relating to, or resulting from the influence of human beings on nature," as Mr. Merriam and Mr. Webster put it...

More here: http://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2013/01/boulder-7.html

First arrowhead finds in 2013

     For the first several days of 2013 the ground here was covered in some inches of snow. With no chance of finding an arrowhead I was able to get some stuff done around the house for a change. Last week was faily warm and then Friday we got some steady rain that washed away what little snow was left. Saturday morning I went out to see what the melting snow might have revealed.

     As I have mentioned before, my goal is to try to find a point in every month. I will be out of town for the next couple of weekends and so this weekend was going to be my one and only chance to get something for January. It's not easy this time of year and I honestly did not think that my chances of success were very good. I took kind of a long drive to a place where I have had some luck before but looking for arrowheads is always hit or miss. I got out of the car and found an area where conditions were good, lots of dirt exposed among the grass. The first place I looked was not an area that I really expected to find anything in, I would have been happy even with a broken fragment, anything. But after just a few short minutes I spotted this, fully exposed.

     I love finding them like this, such a thrill. Here is a closer look.

     This is a really lovely material, gray-purple quartzite. This is my first (mostly) intact point in this material. The very tip is damaged. I like the shape of this one very much. This is a great find for me.

     I looked for a while more, picking up lots of chips and flakes. I bent down to pick up a piece of quartz that was barely sticking out of the dirt, only a sliver of one edge was visible. When it came out of the ground it was caked with dirt and as I started wiping the dirt away my excitement level was building rapidly, could it be? It was.

     At first I kind of dismissed this as a crude piece but as time has passed it has really grown on me and I am really happy with it. It is all there and it is really rather nicely made. The stem is ground, I think it is very old, Archaic period maybe, though these narrow stemmed types are tough to date. Finding two points in a day is a great day for me and I really like to find these stemmed forms.

Noanet Brook Crossing

This one took poise - and a stick. On the way, saw a woodpecker:

Oh, yeah. Also this:

 Note the bucket.

Photos by Abvhiael Crowley

AB writes: "...something i found up in this area last year, when i didnt have a camera on hand, that reminded me a lot of a smaller version of the tie creek man in whiteshell park that steinbring wrote about. the area features a lot of the same sort of topography, granite barrens, encroachments of heath, stones everywhere. these cobble lines are all over the place, and feel like a trail marker. it WOULD be easy to get lost and turned around in this landscape. the boulder-man i found might be... say.. ten feet long at most, but had a heart stone, and lay exposed on a south facing granite pavement outcropping, near a few of these propped boulders. i have to go back into the area again, from the other side, i think, and try to find that site again..."

propped boulder 12 with cairn, macintosh run, spryfield, nova scotia

propped boulder 11, macintosh run, spryfield, ns

propped boulder 7 and cobble line, macintosh run, spryfield, ns
44N36.165 63W35.399

propped boulder 1, macintosh run, spryfield, ns
44N36.390 63W35.915

propped boulder 4, macintosh run, spryfield, ns

 

eagle rock, admiral rock park, bedford, ns
44N43.237 63W39.102

All photos by "long time reader"  Abvhiael Crowley lifted (with permission) from the

Photos of Celebrating the Ceremonial Stone Landscapes of Eastern North America

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More YouTube videos: stone chambers

"Wangton stone chambers with Putnam Jones"
"Whitcomb Ave Chamber with Dan Boudillion"
"Ninham Mountain"

surfing the internet so you don't have to

"something strange in the woods"
"Arrowhead Hunt"
"Looking for Bigfoot Habitat" 
"Large Stone Pile"

blogging to resume...

...hopefully after next weekend. Holidays took the wind out of me.

time for a new picture

From Patch Hill area of Boxboro:

2012 review

What a great year it has been for rock pile hunting. There were 73 picture folders in 2012. Here is a sampling (somewhat selective):
Falulah West (Fitchburg/Ashby):

Tenney Rd (Westford):

Greystone (I forget):

Townsend State Forest:

French Str (Dunstable):

Rogers Land (Lincoln):

Gibbs Environment (Framingham):

Gates Pond SE (Berlin):

Peter Hill (Hopkinton):

Hobbs top (Lincoln):

Fitchburg High school:

Alpine Hill (Fitchburg):

Scott Rd (Fitchburg):

Oak Hill (Littleton):

Buck Hill (Fitchburg):

Pratt Hill (Upton):

Kendall Hill Rd (Ashby):

Scott Reservoir (Fitchburg):

Muddy Pond extended (Westminster):

Flume Pond (I forget):

Midway (Acton):

Hopkinton:

Leominster State Forest:

Cowassock (Ashland):

Palmer Hill NW (Fitchburg/Leominster):

 

Beech Tree (Billerica):

Blood Rd (Groton):

Blood Hill (Ashby/Ashburnham):

Until the next time