Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Walk in Estabrook Woods (5) - the Hubbard's Hill chamber

Continuing from part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4, here is the chamber on Hubbard's Hill that I first heard about in connection with Mark Strohmeyer.
The chamber is incorporated into a wall running roughly north-south. It is rectangular, turning a corner at the entrance (a bit like the Potato Cave and the Harvard Chamber), and corbelled.It guess it was once fully covered but has been damaged. In the next picture it seems that the entrance structure was added separately:I have to get out and explore Estabrook some more. It takes a lot to get to know every landmark in it. Walter Brain had to admit that this was new to him.
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4 comments :

  1. Tim MacSweeney6:17 AM

    Reading the Stiles stuff about Woodbridge, he finds what sound like chambers with stone bases covered with what's left of covers of tree material, that sound like sweatlodges to me. Could this be a small sweatlodge??

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  2. pwax9:39 AM

    According to Doug Harris, sweatlodges were built very near water. This is half-way up a hill, so I think not.

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  3. James Christian3:34 PM

    I believe that this structure was built at some point in the 70s or 80s by someone keen on masonry. When i last saw it in the 90s it looks as it does in these pictures but I'm pretty sure the roof was on it when i first ran into it in about 1987 while attending middlesex. Now I run walking safaris in kenya. Cheers, Jamie Christian

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  4. pwax12:09 PM

    Glad you know Concord but your assessment of date is un-supported.

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