Day 1 - Locust hole
Day 2 - Fringes of Webster woods
Day 3 - NE of Thomas Landers
Day 4 - west of Punch Bowl
Day 5 - Bourne Cons lands
Day 6 - WHOI Quisset
Day 2 - Fringes of Webster woods
Day 3 - NE of Thomas Landers
Day 4 - west of Punch Bowl
Day 5 - Bourne Cons lands
Day 6 - WHOI Quisset
More detail about Day 1:
Taking the trail south from Brick Kiln for a while, over hill and dale, I got to a point where there is a wall to the left like this:

I encountered a stone wall going down into the hole and, next to it, a first anomaly:






Mavor wrote about and built a model of a similar ring of stones next to a stone wall over on the Oceanographic's Quisset property. For some time the model was displayed at the Woods Hole Historical Society. In his analysis, he assumed someone sitting in the ring. Now that I think about it, Mavor made the argument that sky-meeting-water defined a point on the horizon which was astronomically significant from the point of view of an observer sitting in the ring. If that is so, I wonder if the rock pile's edge might define a similar such horizon point, where it meets the ground - the pile was in the right sort of place to be observed on a near horizon, across the slope from the ring - visible if there was not so much brush in the way. That would make this a "marker pile".
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