I walked in from a turnout on Grafton Rd, took the left hand fork, saw a large teepee off through the woods to the left but headed north off the trail and a ways over the flat snow; then increasingly eastward until I was walking to coming downhill and up to the edge of a shoulder. Saw a few traces of piles and then came to some nice "ski jump" marker piles at an overlook with a chambered cairn. This helped cement some of the ideas of "Wachusett Tradition" I wrote about last week.A first look at the site, not sure it is a site:
Note the little small boulder configuration to the left. I went to take a closer look:
And the funny stone in the background.
This reminds me of some rocks Mavor pointed out. What kind of role does that notch play? Functional? Representative?Another view of the site:
Details of the pile on the right:
Rather than having a single vertical face, this pile comes to a point with two vertical faces.A pile of a different shape, hard to make out in the snow:
It is a small 1/4 acre flat place, with piles along its edge:
And a nice view outwards to the east:
Larger things - piles or outcrops with growth and rocks on top:
Some smaller pointy piles:
And perhaps now is a good time to come back to that small boulder configuration we saw at the start of the site. I was looking at it from the other side wondering, what that extra little extension was for. 
You can talk about "turtles" but look what is visible from the other side:
The side surface of that small seems to me to be deliberately parallel to the surface of the larger one.There was at least one other large pile with a vertical face:
In terms of the small rock next to the big rock with a parallel vertical surface (seen from one side): could the reason be that they needed that vertical surface to be just a little bit longer?
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