Around the "T" in "Town Forest" there was a place where, at first glance, some rocks had fallen off of the nearby stone wall:
FFC noticed that these rocks formed a pattern with a head formed by a ring at one end (near his feet in the next picture) and a tail that snaked away from the head (towards the camera).
I went to take a closer look at the ring and I have to admit, it looked quite deliberately made.
Fascinating! These stones should be mapped precisely using a grid, as this would make your argument more convincing.
ReplyDeleteIt is not my argument. But I will suggest this.
ReplyDeleteI think the snow helps enhance the image, although maybe that's just me. It also looks, to me, like some of those rocks are too far away from the wall to have fallen off.
ReplyDeletei wonder. anything that close to a wall is very supicious/ or achaeology damaged. You have to wonder why the stone wall builders never used those nearby rocks just to add to the wall since they were there for the taking.
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Keith: looking at the height of the wall I think it is fairly clear the stones were borrowed from the wall and, if this structure is deliberate, it was built more recently than the wall.
ReplyDeletegood point. It's amazing that something so commonly made within the last 100/150 yrs or so and we have so little (to none) information about why these piles were made.
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After the snow melts, someone should determine just how deeply the stones are buried in the soil. From what I've heard, bioturbation rates are about one inch per century. So if the stones are deeply buried, then one should reconsider whether the possible snake petroform is recent or ancient.
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