Beaver Dam Hill in Montville, CT, where the “souterrain” is located, is also chock full of cairns. Ted Hendrickson, a photographer by profession, was looking for the souterrain with his wife, and came across this marvelous split-wedged boulder with some donation stones on top. I look upon these wedged boulders as a Native American signature. I also see the stones on top as later than the stone wedged in the split: in other words, in response to the wedge.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Split boulder from Montville CT
Norman Muller writes:
It looks like it is part of two parallel lines coming diagonally off from the wall
ReplyDeletePlease explain. What wall? This is a split boulder, undoubtedly of gneiss. There is no wall nearby.
ReplyDeleteThere is what looks like a stone wall at the back of the picture. Draw a line from the split rock, over the rock behind and to the left of it, towards the wall. Compare this to a line joining the rock pile on the right of the picture, to the damaged rock pile behind and left of it, towards the wall. These two lines are approximately parallel.
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