Following Jim Porter we drove back to the highway....Pond. We followed a trail around the west side of the pond and then uphill to a bald spot, where we began seeing things, and then on up into a mountain laurel woods with piles all around.
You can see the pond down hill on the right, with a southeast view over it. You may not be able to see it but every larger rock in the picture is wedged up. I told Jim later I would have considered it a successful day out if we had only seen this bald spot.Just above, the piles started in earnest.
By this time [after the day at the Miner Farm] my camera was full. Also I was burned out from seeing such wonderful piles. This last place reminds me of a number of marker pile sites.
Jim tells us that this is only the edge of a vast site. Gosh they have nice stuff down in southwestern Rhode Island.
This is indeed a vast site -- by far the largest area I have seen in all of New England.
ReplyDeleteI visited this same section again a few days later -- after a heavy rainfall the night before -- and a waterfall was audible from this area. It was so overgrown I couldn't get to it and my time was too short to fight the briars.
This site is also home to the following wall feature as photographed by Larry Harrop -- [Click here] for the photo.
I always imagine the past and the low ground fires that cleared away the greebriar and bittersweet...
ReplyDeleteThe waterfall is worth fighting the briars to get to. Not that it's a spectacular waterfall , but because there is another cairn field with upwards of 2 dozen cairns a short distance from it.
ReplyDeleteHere's a sample.
You can also bushwack back towards the parking area and find an outcrop with the boulder with the drill holes and yet another cairn field.
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ReplyDeleteI live in Rockville and I am very curious as to where this is.
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