Rock Piles: Serpent by the Junkyard

Every once in a while over the years, I stop and take a look at some of the rows of stones along the side of this particular road I use to avoid the traffic of Watertown CT. On this particular day I was returning home from the Waterbury DMV, just after crossing the Naugatuck River.

I had spotted this little detail above in the stones, parked and followed what looked like a carefully made zigzag covered with a little bit of garbage in many places, but some interesting atypical of field clearing and possibly Indigenous stacking of stones on the row...

(Broken Quartz and maybe a small Manitou Stone)

(Contrasting dark stone segment with trash bags:)

... eventually turning around where a massive pile of garbage towered above a sweet little hollow with multiple tree stands.

I headed back south to the road and was going to head back home, but below a massive bulldozed pile of earth and stones and trees and more modern trash (where the Industrial Park begins – or thickens you might say), was a rather tall linear “stone wall” that had escaped destruction. I followed that row of stones downhill, noting some possible Indigenous Elements, a possible turtle or two, some rhomboidal stones, colorful stones including white quartz – but nothing really “spectacular.”

It got interesting when the row was joined by another smaller row that led to some bedrock outcrops (and/or big partially buried boulders?), below which there was a semi-circular break in the otherwise more or less linear row that I had started with:

There were other rows of stones visible in places, sometimes following the topography, sometimes not. I could look down toward the bottom at a swampy area, edged with stones, a hint or two of possible rows extending into the swamp, but I didn’t really get into there to explore, my time budget for my “walk or die” health program already shot.

The plan was a quick getaway, but I could plainly see multiple rows of stones connecting to big boulders, a few with stones piles on them, really much more than a quick look could take in, making my list here quite incomplete…

(I came back to add: In the photo above, the Serpent is in the distance on the far right, just below that inclined line of the roadway...)

And yes there was a Serpent here, connected to an outcrop, just below the path that became a road, a little modern steep hillside graveyard for items the transfer station down the road might charge for, big heavy old style large screen TVs, mattresses and lots of tires…