Stone Pile in the middle of the Old CT Path

    I’m getting a lot of virtual mileage out of those CT Path Videos I linked to a couple days ago (Indian Trails and Rows of Stones) while outdoors continues to be not only snowy and icy but also sort of cold. I find it sometimes satisfying following Jason along those rows of stones but also frustrating when I think I spot Something Possibly Ceremonial – like those boulders at what might be openings that might be a possible serpent. I see them in the distance but as he gets close he swings the camera away to the opposite “stone wall” he keeps telling us is a testament to the skills of the people who showed up in 1620 - along an Indian Trail known to be a “couple thousand years old” (Herman Bender - Personal Communication 01/15/15). Using a law of Parsimony as a guide, a good question might be “Was all that stone work more likely built by the group of people who have lived in this part of the world for the 3% of the total time of human occupation in the area or sometime during the other 97%?” Another way to say that too is for me to paraphrase and mangle up Lucianne Lavin’s question (possibly to Tim Ives) during the Stone Feature Roundtable: “Who do we think would have constructed a stone wall if at the end of that stone wall you find there is a boulder that might represent a snake’s head?”

     It also turns out the actual true CT Path is in dispute: there’s more trails suspected and there other known paths all over CT (and elsewhere) – Are there similar stone features along those trails?  

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     And I should have thought to have chosen a different preview picture at Rock Piles but I thought the map was interesting - and actually I was surprised at this that showed a a preview at

http://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2015/01/old-connecticut-path-ashfordeastford.html 

because this is how I see it there: 

     On my 'compose a blog screen' the image looked like it does above in the first photo, a rock pile or Stone Mound or even Carin if you are of Scottish descent and really want to use this European word when these probably a perfectly good Nipmuc word to use, right in the middle of the Path:

      So now I’m thinking that it might not be too cold to stop along a spot where Peter, Norman and I once stopped after the NEARA Fall 1998 Meeting, up by the Bethlehem Town Dump. I would think that I would have shown them showed something similar inside that double stone row construction, often described in stone wall literature as “cow paths,” but the truth is I don’t remember if I did. Maybe there’s a photo from that day of that stone pile – and maybe it really isn’t that cold today; I just may take a chance and get an image that might be remarkably similar...
Update: http://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2015/01/former-stone-mounds.html