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.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
A small rock pile site in Carlisle MA
FFC took me over to visit a friend who has access to a small piece of Carlisle Conservation Fund land behind his property. We joined up with the friend and took a walk, out over the field and past the stone wall into a low semi-swampy area that was more or less surrounded by the curve of a ditch-like water course. At the middle of the curve there was one large rock pile, of indistinct shape. Nearby there were a few low piles. Some were on the ground and some on supports. The whole area was perhaps one or two acres.
Here are some of the smaller piles:Here is a view of the large pile from one side: And here is a view of the extent of it, with friends on top for scale: The property owner said that he played in this area as a child. Also, there was part of an old road through there and going right next to the large pile.
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