Someone puzzles over a recent "cairn" [Click here]
Trailside on Sugarloaf Mountain [Click here]
The way field clearing piles should look [Click here]
Ohlone Trail Rock Pile [Click here]
Don't Build Rock Piles! [Click here]
Arctic Graveyard [Click here]
"Safford Grids" - structures in the desert [Click here]
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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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The Sugarloaf cairn looks like it began as a carefully constructed cairn, but it looks haphazard at the top. Where is this? And where is the last cairn in the series?
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Sugarloaf Mt. is in Maryland, and the cairn shows in an image taken by Sierra Club members and posted on the Internet. Cairns like this should be studied carefully, because they could be very old; the careful construction of the bottom courses of stone is intriguing, as this is not like the cairns found on the White Mountains of NH, for instance. A similar cairn to the one in MD, though flat on top, has been discovered on Glastenbury Mt. in southern, VT, just below the peak and off the trail slightly, I am told. Nearby are two other cairns, though not of the same type. Glastenbury Mt. is very difficult to get to, being very isolated in the middle of the Green Mountain Forest.
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