Several different features inside the blue outline. There is a pocket of mounds there, and perhaps more to be seen nearby - it is pretty impenetrable west of the trail.
Mound site at Sippewissett, sw Beebee Woods
So here we step into the 'pocket' - completely invisible unless you are right there.
The lower, larger one seems to have a hollow
The upper one seems to be a "duel chambered" model:
Here is a view out the 'pocket' to the south, from behind the lower mound:
My friend, Johannes Raatz, shows the direction to the south, out the valley:
After poking around for a bit, we went back to the trail and he spotted this one in the bushes. My only excuse for missing this is my being about 6 inches shorter. A great "spot" in any case:
Upon braving scratched legs, we can make out that this mound also has a faint hollow:
So this is quite a wonderful collection of mounds for Cape Cod. If you had asked me two years ago I would have said, the only "mounds with hollows" were the oldest smallest form of them (like Scott Reservoir and like the site off Briarwood Rd, in Acton at Nashoba Brook). But I was wrong, I found a pavement and then a normal "rectangular mound with hollow" over by the fire station in Woods Hole. And now, with after seeing these truly typical larger mounds, it is clear that -yes- these are found on Cape Cod too.
I'll report next on some mounds under the trail nearby at Sippewisset. Which suggests these hills above Sippewissett might have had more mounds in the past. But today it is very heavily developed.
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