I thought if the northeast side of Muddy Pond had interesting rock piles (as reported here) then perhaps the northwest side would too. It turns out there is a low peninsula of land extending into the edges of Muddy Pond from that side which has numerous large and small rock piles, berms, and walls. There is a sense of the site having an overall organization. I believe this is similar also to the sites in the Manoosnocs and the one in Callahan State Forest.I wasn't sure where to park but picked somewhere near Barrel Rd and walked eastward into the woods and immediately hit a small isolated rock pile.
(closeup)
Then I continued along a path and saw a different kind of pile next to the path (at A).
It did not look very prepossessing but I looked downhill from it, towards the water, and spotted a stone wall coming up from the wetland and ending in a couple of disjointed rock piles (at B). 
The middle pile was interesting because it looked to have been chambered and vandalized:
The terminal pile was an elongated mound angled differently from the direction of the stone wall below.
This is very similar to the second pile I saw on the way in, the first day at Muddy Pond (northeast) a couple of weeks ago - where that pile looked like a continuation of a stone wall after a gap but angled differently than the wall.Further down the peninsula (at C) there was a berm of cobbles with nice pieces of quartz and several satellite piles. Like the wall, the berm ended in a discontinuous pair of elongated rock piles. The map fragment is not accurate but gives a slight sense of the layout.
On the peninsula, at a kind of apex, there was one larger pile made from significantly larger rocks.
At the edge of the peninsula, a berm of smaller cobbles mixed with quartz.
There were several smaller piles that I imagined as in relation to these larger features. Pictured here in the foregrounds:
This last one was the first thing I noticed and tried to video. Later on re-examination I thought perhaps it was placed in relation to the chunk of quartz in the berm behind it. Here is a low grade video to try to make the point. You be the judge.
At the edge of the peninsula, a berm of smaller cobbles mixed with quartz.
There were several smaller piles that I imagined as in relation to these larger features. Pictured here in the foregrounds:
This last one was the first thing I noticed and tried to video. Later on re-examination I thought perhaps it was placed in relation to the chunk of quartz in the berm behind it. Here is a low grade video to try to make the point. You be the judge.
In the video, I meant to say north north west (not east).
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