tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post7483329376601699900..comments2024-03-28T19:28:10.100-04:00Comments on <b>Rock Piles</b>: Fort Devens Stone Wall Map Strikes Again!pwaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16647940752050937588noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-38878658842627647712013-06-23T06:40:21.616-04:002013-06-23T06:40:21.616-04:00I recall Mavor and Dix thought a large number of w...I recall Mavor and Dix thought a large number of walls were Native American. Was it 70%? I now think the Devens map shows otherwise - roughly 20% of the walls "go crazy" while the rest follow rectalinear land-division logic. <br />We can have that discussion more quantitatively now, using the map.pwaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647940752050937588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-84021025464943384622013-06-21T08:02:39.135-04:002013-06-21T08:02:39.135-04:00"mentioned""mentioned"Tim MacSweeneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517237193572593390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010261.post-40565316311102753312013-06-21T08:02:16.448-04:002013-06-21T08:02:16.448-04:00More and more, with each passing year, I believe l...More and more, with each passing year, I believe less and less that New England's "Stone Walls" are "reminders of our agricultural past (and I mean the past that goes back only to the 1620's) and are actually remnants of Native American constructions that go back perhaps as far as those found in other places, like the ones the under the waters of the Great Lakes (not Tim MacSweeneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517237193572593390noreply@blogger.com