Given the discussion of zig-zag walls, here is one from Cahoonzie that seemed to be made from separate dumped piles of rock:
I guess you distinguish between the walls that zig-zag back and forth horizontally versus ones that zig-zag up and down, like this one. I have seen both kinds in southwestern CT but they are no so common in eastern MA.
I would describe what you are showing as the intentional "vertical undulations" that resemble the body of a great snake, as opposed to the European style fences built with a string to keep the top course of stones level. Eric Sloane, Allport, Thorson, the Gages, and others claim the nice, neat, equal 10 foot segments of "zigzag stone fence" that show sharply on Lidar are a result of field clearing stone thrown or dumped by the cartload against a Virginia Rail/Snake Fence, which really makes no sense - unless you have crews of stone masons rebuilding miles and miles of the fences - accidently incorporating snake like heads into the constructions, as well as the other effigies and Indigenous Iconography.
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