More pics from Stone Ruins, Cellar Walls

More from Chris:

...pictures from a site in Chesterfield NH. There are a lot of stone piles and walls at this site. I wonder what you think of these pictures? Farm clearing piles? I don't know. Here is the link:
http://stoneruins.cellarwalls.com/#14.16

Lithic Roxborough

If you haven't visited this link lately, I recommend it.

Rock piles and a stone wall - NY

by theseventhgeneration
Here is a site in NY that is at a high elevation. There is a large, flat area near the summit that has several small rock piles scattered about. My GPS is on this pile.A second pile with the first barely visible in the background just to the left of my backpack, hiking stick, and a dog leash.This little pile had an owl pellet on it.I cut any additional exploring for more small piles short when I noticed a stretch of stone wall to the south and running uphill, toward the summit.The wall goes north-south about 30 or 40 yards. On the northern end, the wall turns to the east and is about 10 yards long, so that the entire structure looks like a backwards L. This is the highest and southernmost end of the wall.Another view of the end of the wall.Then, after the wall ends, there are more rock piles scattered about the very top of the mountain.

Effigy Mounds on U of Wisconsin campus

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Stone Ruins, Cellar Walls

New permanent link to Chris's "Stone Ruins, Cellar Walls" website added to the right (also here). Norman M. recommends the photos for Foster RI.

Lenape Museum exhibit includes cairn photo

Geophile writes:

...an exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, on the Lenape who stayed behind, the "hidden Indians" of PA. The exhibit apparently includes a picture of a cairn from Oley Hills. Fred Werkheiser and Bob Redhawk are mentioned, Redhawk as a curator.

Article here. Quote: "A Werkheiser photograph of a distinctive cairn in eastern Berks is one of the first items visitors see when they enter the display area."

Museum exhibit pages here.

Spruceton NY Cairn Site

Norman Muller writes:

Ted Timreck and I met with Glenn Kreisberg yesterday for a tour of a spectacular cairn site in Spruceton, NY, in the Catskill Mountains. This is a site that Tom Paul is familiar with. The site, little more than a few acres in size, consists of a dozen or so very large platform cairns with many smaller stone piles and cairns scattered about, all found within a fairly open wooded area off a trail which heads to a mountain gap or pass. There is a beautiful stream that parallels the trail. The site was found by Dave Holden, a Woodstock resident and NEARA member, while on a hike some years back. Many of the cairns are beautifully constructed, as the photos indicate, and can be compared to those found in most New England states and along the Appalachian Mountain chain to the south.

Douglas State Forest

Reader Chris writes:

I uploaded some photos of stone features located near the rocking stone featured in the video link I sent previously. There are some small stone piles and other interesting-looking small constructions that certainly appear to me to be purposefully built. I would be interested in hearing opinions about this. The pictures are here:

http://stoneruins.cellarwalls.com/#10.5

There are stone chambers not far from this location, a short distance to the south.

High Places

There's been some mention of High Places in recent posts and I just happened to have re-read something, published in 1643, that mentions those High Places too:

Other things, I imagine, could be prayed for too...

Split Wedged Rock - Brown Rd Cons. Land, Harvard MA

Woods West of Danforth Brook, Bolton MA

On a walk through the fall woods last weekend, I saw a small site next to a wetland and a few items on the high ground in there. For example, this stone U - blocked off:
It reminded me of the second photo here.

Here was a wedged rock under the yellow beech leaves:
The small site at a wetland consisted of a group of three or four rock piles around a disturbed area of soil.A closeup of one of the piles, (the right hand foreground pile above), with a piece of quartz:Seen from the other direction:
Notice the trenches in the dirt.

Nearby was this heavy rock structure:

Schaghticoke Tribal Nation-SIGN PETITION for Justice

If you wish to sign the petition to help the Schaghticoke Tribe regain their well-earned federal recognition, please go to this link:

http://new.petitiononline.com/STN06418/petition.html

More about the Scaghticoke at:
http://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2008/11/schaghticoke-tribal-nation-sign.html

Keith writes in about a stone U structure he found years ago at the Hale Reservation.

Rocking stone videos

Reader soccorro64 writes:

One of the comments on the blog post with the link to my photos of the cairn site in Glocester mentioned rocking stones. I don't think any of the balanced boulders in Glocester will still move, if they ever did. I did find a very easily moved rocking stone in Douglas, MA this spring. I took many photos of a number of interesting rock piles near this rocking stone. I made a video of the rocking stone moving after I got it started, you can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9l0ov6RleI
I found some very interesting rock piles over the weekend in Pisgah State Park, Chesterfield NH as well.

New Exeter, RI Site From Larry Harrop

by JimP

Larry Harrop's two latest blog posts show a new site in Exeter, RI with rock piles and propped boulders. Check it out!
Click here for Larry's blog.

NY Mountaintop site - part 2

There are over a dozen really beautiful rock piles just off the flat from the mountaintop, many of them along the ledge leading up to the flat on the eastern side. This one has an aperture which provides a good view from both sides:
There were a number of spots where I could get more than one rock pile in a single picture.
This is one of my favorites. It's quite large and stacked on a boulder.This last rock pile is right on the edge of the flat, on the southeast side. It's a little different and somewhat separate from the main group of rock piles on the flat. Such nice shapes!

NY Mountaintop site - part 1

by theseventhgeneration
Here is a site in central NY that I found this weekend. I had no leads on the site, but have explored both east/northeast and west/southwest of here in the past. I previously posted one of those two visits on Rock Piles here.

Thinking I've already seen all there is here, I would not have gone back out to this site, but for one reason. I've been reading "Manitou" by Mavor and Dix and contemplating the relationship between the Upton Chamber and the Pratt Hill mounds.

There is site I've posted about on Two Headwaters here which we've always called "the bowl". If you go to the 11th picture down, of the stone row in the snow, you can see a mountain in the background. This post is of that mountaintop, which I'll call "Site 1". Site 1 faces "the bowl". Additionally, above "the bowl" is a site of large rock piles (click here for one example) and "marker pile" site. The bowl and Site 1 are over 1.5 miles apart. The rock piles at both sites, I think, are too small to see each other with the naked eye from that distance. So, I'm not trying to interpret this as being the same as what Mavor and Dix found in "Manitou", I just think it's interesting that I walked right up to this site after reading this part of "Manitou".

This map piece labels "the bowl" to the northeast and "Site 1" to the southwest (circled in blue).On my walk up, I approached from the southwest and found this wedge:

Then, at the summit, walked right up to this short stretch of north/south stone row:
All of the rock piles in this post are on the flat at the eastern summit. They are all to the east of the stone row. Although the mountain ascends to the west of the short stone row, there are no rock piles to the west of the stone row. There are at least 12 rock piles on the flat and here are a few:



To be continued...

A little rock pile site near Stony Brook in southern Lincoln, MA

In keeping with my philosophy of always publishing site locations if they are in Lincoln, one of Boston's most expensive neighborhoods, here is what may be one of only two rock pile sites in that town.

I was driving slowly along back roads and saw a trail entrance. Going in, to my surprise, I found a small rock pile site looking east from a hill. Here is the east facing slope with a near rock pile and a far one:The far pile was the best thing I saw all weekend.There were also a couple of split-filled and split-wedged rocks:Sort of nice structures. Perhaps they have to do with the view of the hill across the way.

Stone Piers near Cherry Brook, Weston MA

I got the word from "Pier" from Jim Egan and have come to think of it as one kind of rock pile: a pile built on a slope as if offering a deliberate level surface at ground level, used to support a structure now gone. I was out for the weekend explore, 2 weekends ago, and came across a couple of these at the Cherry Brook Conservation Land in Weston. They don't quite fit the bill as "Piers" but for some reason they do not seem ceremonial.

A few views of one.Here is another from nearby but not in direct association to the first.This pile was next to a pit dug in the hill top.

These were on the higher land just west of the brook, which you cross on a causeway.