Discovered this one on a hike today around the Huyck Preserve in Rensselaerville, New York. http://www.huyckpreserve.org/

This is about rock piles and stone mound sites in New England. A balance is needed between keeping them secret and making them public. Also arrowheads, stone tools and other surface archaeology.
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To the north is swamp, to the east is a confluence of two creeks. The site offers a stunning 12-21 sunrise, at or near a notch on the horizon.
Do the rock piles run roughly northwest to southeast along the hill (maybe on a small ridge)? Also, are many of the rock piles on boulders, like the one in the photo? If so, this matches the description of the Ludlow Creek Rock pile site very closely.
There is a stone wall at the edge of the Ludlow Creek site which we judged to be 5 feet in a few places. At the Ludlow Creek site, there is also a strange stone structure at the base of the hill (it seems to demarcate the base of the hill from the flat by the creek) which is rudely constructed, but has the appearance of a stone wall in places. We could not determine if it was related to a mill or not, but, to me, the structure looked like a serpent.
Nice rock pile!
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