The only new thing of interest that I found today was a pile on top of a boulder with 2 red stones on it ( one on top of the other)
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This is about rock piles and stone mound sites in New England. A balance is needed between keeping them secret and making them public. Also arrowheads, stone tools and other surface archaeology.
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Red had a number of religious and spiritual connotations to the American Indians, emphasizing blood and life force, for example. The placement of this particular rock was certainly intentional, and to me serves to indicate an Indian, as opposed to a Colonial, explanation. Now, the question is, what kind of stone is it? The red makes me think of pure hematite, but Larry said it was no heavier than the other stones in the pile. It must be something else, or perhaps heavily weathered hematite of an earthen (red ochre) variety, that was used in Indian burials.
ReplyDeleteI sharpened the detail of the red stone, and I see a bit of orange color to the right, which makes me think of realgar, which is an arsenic sulfide and often found in proximity to cinnabar, a sulfide of mercury. But all of this requires confirmation by sampling and testing.
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