Further down that slope is a sort of a split pile. 
Monday, April 15, 2013
Out in the Berkshires
Took a walk in the woods in Tolland, Massachusetts on Sunday. A stone wall runs along a path that goes into the woods. Not far from the road, and near the path, on a slope going down to a swampy area, I spotted this well-built structure with an obvious hollow.
A couple of views from the downhill side, showing the careful construction.
This second pile is built close to the edge of a large boulder.
That rock on the ground in front of the boulder has a presumably natural depression that could perhaps have been used as a mortar.
Near the bottom of that slope, a low pile, looking smeared out.
Elsewhere in the same woods, a group of three stones and a rock-on-rock flank two sides of a shallow depression in the earth.
Looks like a manitoui stone in front of the lower pile in image 4.
ReplyDeleteYou pointed out a "group of three stones and a rock-on-rock flank two sides of a shallow depression."
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting, because I was thinking these depression represented compactification from being walked on. But in your picture: might someone have sat there?
On second thought, maybe water flows through there? I should look closer at some of my own pics.
ReplyDeleteThe depression was rather clearly defined and had a distinct shape. I don't think it could have been formed by people walking on the spot, I would expect the outline to be more amorphous in such a case. It looks like soil was removed here, at some point.
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