Thursday, December 28, 2006

Pair of elongated rock piles

The largest site I know of near here was found by Bruce McAleer in Harvard, MA. Whenever I explore woods adjactent to this major site I discover new clusters of rock piles. Yesterday I went out to explore one fringe area like this and I kept finding things as I explored until I got back to parts of the site I had already visited. So anyway here is an interesting feature I had not seen before:
Two elongated rock piles, lying side by side. Here is a view from one end:
Look closely and you see a little white spot on the right hand side, a a few feet back from the end of the pile. Here is a detail:
If we look at the far end of the other pile we see something similar:

Again there is a white spot. Here is detail:Very symmetric.
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3 comments :

  1. JimP7:33 PM

    These very much remind me of the elongated pile from Panther Orchard Farm:

    http://www.menotomyjournal.com/pantherorchard/pasturecairn2.jpg

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  2. pwax3:51 PM

    The "major site" is between Codman Rd and Murray Ln - we called it "Codman Hill" and it is now Harvard Cons. land (2017)

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  3. pwax7:43 AM

    First, this is the site in Harvard at the end of Murray Lane. It is public cons. land today. Second, these piles are quite like the ones, mis-identified as continuous "wall" in the Fort Devens map survey of Shirley, re the land south of Holden Rd.

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