Here are the pictures I was talking about. This is a hugh area and some of the round piles of rock remind me of some of the ones on your site. But the chimney and walls kind of throw me off, they don't seem to go together. This is on the Pa. side of the Delaware up past Calicoon, N.Y. Bob
First of all, thanks Bob for the lush green color. Second, I cannot figure out what might be going on in this place. Presumably someone knows the history of things like that chimney but there must be more to the story.
ReplyDeleteSome of the piles look like ones I've seen in Halstead, NY, and elsewhere, especially the elaborate ones on boulders or outcrops. Are these on the road paralleling the Delaware?
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The next to the last image looks suspiciously like the platform cairns I've been studying in Vermont. Compare the ones at www.neara.org/Muller/platformcairns.htm
ReplyDeleteIt's all coming back now. Several years ago, after seeing the photos Bob Peal took of the cairns, I drove to Equinunk, PA, to see them myself. It is a strange place, and unfortunately the photos I took that day didn't come out well. In any case, the terraced walls seem to have been constructed for a 19th century house on the slope above them; there is no trace of the house, but there is a large chimney. Then, in the woods near the terrace walls, and enclosed by two walls, is an assortment of large and well constructed cairns on boulders that certainly look Indian.
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