You may have just been looking at this map, in the report on Paul Hill.
I mentioned I wanted to get over into that swamp/valley downhill from the road, and I figured out how to do it because there is a small conservation land off one of the small roads there ("McGregor Lane") and I went trespassing in behind there, getting access to a big undisturbed woods. We see scenes like this:
Regular nicely made walls, not necessarily at right angles or all that straight, criss-cross the area and I found a reasonably high density of rock pile sites as I poked around in there. There are more sites than shown on the map. Got a bit lost up near where the "?" appears but retraced my steps successfully and got out of there.
I am afraid the "teaser" (here) may have made this look more interesting than it deserves. The sites I found were like this: a small cluster of piles built on small boulders, hiding in the Hay-Scented ferns.
Some of the piles seemed slightly triangular:
Some of them were unmistakably triangular:[Make note, I took photos of others like this from Concord, yesterday]
Another cluster. Same idea but with Cinnamon Ferns rather than Hay-Scented ones.
These above were on the east side of "Bare Hill". Stepping across onto the "island" in the middle of the swamp: another few clusters. Here is one:
A split rock with some fill:The piles in this cluster are a bit larger and more substantial:Piles with vertical sides, split-wedge rocks, familiar features. It went on and on: walk through ferns, get lost, find more rock piles. Here was a nice one:
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Eventually (about where the "?" appears") there was something else. A messy spill over the edge of what could easily have been a plowed area. So field clearing piles?Maybe, but this was adjacent to the Paul Hill sites I reported [click here], with the same objections to this being field clearing. Just wanted to mention this other type of site in there.
So I got lost because it was cloudy and I followed the wrong hill to get back to where I thought I came in. Now I'm packing a compass on cloudy days. It is very liberating.
12th photo down: turtle petroform?
ReplyDeleteLarge forelegs, a head and carapace?
I see what you mean about the stone rows, looking at the Bing bird's eye views. There's one in there that looks more massive than the others...
ReplyDeleteI should have said "boulder rows," since that's what you've show.
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