From Clark's Gully Blog - New Mound Found at South Hill

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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

New Mound Found at South Hill

Last Saturday I followed my dowsing rods to the Northeast part of South HIll and found the most interesting stone mound. It is about 15 by 20 feet in size. I am pretty confident that it is a Hopewell Adena Mound like the others we have found on South HIll because it is situated on 3 earth chakras. As I noted previously NY state archeologist felt that the numerous mounds on top of South Hill were made by the Hopewell and Adena.

The stone mound is located on a steep part of the mountain so it is highly unlikely that any farmer made the pile by clearing the area. It strategic location on 3 earth chakras also gives credence that it is like the other mounds made by the mound builders. As the pictures show it is located in a thick thicket that has not seen humankind for some time. Most of the stones are flat and it is clear that whomever constructed it was intentionally making something. Most likely the structure was flat on the top as Ritchie noted with the other mounds. It may be that the mounds were terraced in three steps. One of the pictures shows my dog Pepper on what may have been the top terrace.

All said it is a pretty remarkable find. Do not be swayed by the broken look as this pile of stones was constructed thousands of years ago. The thick thicket around it has served to protect it from intruders. The pictures do not do it justice to it and does not show the sharp incline it is situated on.


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Around Camp Whiting in Woodbridge CT

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Around Camp Whiting in Woodbridge CT

and a Whole Lotta Quartz...

Cairn Entry in Wiktionary

Picture of cairns along the Lion's Head trail on Mt. Washington, NH. Taken in late November during a snowstorm (from Wikipedia).

Etymology: from Scots cairn, from Scottish Gaelic carn (“‘heap of stones’”); compare Old Irish carn, Welsh carn, probably from a Proto-Celtic word meaning ‘horn’.

Noun: Singular cairn, Plural cairns
1.) A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.
Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn. -Campbell.
2.) A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, to guide travelers on land or at sea, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.
(zoology)

3.) A cairn terrier.

Synonyms
burial mound

Wikipedia has an article on: Cairn

It says: "A cairn (carn in Irish, carnedd in Welsh, càrn in Scots Gaelic) is a manmade pile of stones, often in a conical form. They are usually found in uplands, on moorland, on mountaintops or near waterways."

Cairns and Vanity

With so many people calling them "cairns", vanity compels me to use the word here to bring in the Google searchers. Cairns, Cairns, Cairns. I grew up thinking cairns were what you have to mark a trail above tree line in the White Mountains; and it seems like the wrong term to use for a humble, low to the ground, rock pile. For large and magnificent structures, it seems more appropriate. Then there are people who pronounce the word as "karn". Where does that come from?

Headwaters of Rocky Brook - Sterling, MA

(Photos to follow.)

Wachusett - the sacred mountain of Eastern MA

I have been trying to take this photo for some time. But you only get about 1 second to see the mountain (driving along at 70mph), so I had to have my camera ready. Anyway, this is the view you get from the east and I can say from personal experience that most undisturbed hills with a good view of that mountain have ceremonial structures facing in that direction.

Looking over Hy-Crest Pond - Sterling, MA

The springs and headwaters in Sterling frequently have small rock pile sites, so I thought it would be worth exploring a bit more out there in "Wachusett Greenway" territory. I saw rock piles in three different places but the site looking north over Hy-Crest Pond was a bit different. This is a site with rock piles on top of boulders, all around a cellar hole. Having just seen this phenomenon last weekend around the Kibbe cellar hole in Carlisle it kind of stands out as a particular type of rock pile site. In addition to a cellar hole and rock piles on surrounding boulders, there were also examples of pile-gap-piles. For lack of a better phrase let's call this a "cellar hole rock pile site". Here is a view of the hilltop looking towards the pond:When I stepped into the woods, I saw a first pile on a boulder, with a lot of debris on it:
And then, I saw several others. They were so covered with debris I figured them to be dumped soil and dirt - not a good sign. But later I decided they were just old piles.Here was another:And another:
I could not shake the doubt that these had something to do (something practical and mundane) with the cellar hole at the top of the hill. But these next ones reassured me:A possible pile-gap-pile:Not much doubt about this one:If you go poking around in there, walk downhill to the east towards the brook. You'll come to a stone wall with a curious tumble of rocks along the wall. I did not photo it because it looked like a rock dump. But at the time, I was wondering if it was a collapsed chamber. The rocks were mostly of the same dimension and there was something a bit odd about the tumble. I should have photo'd it.

So, if I see a site around a cellar hole again, I am going to look for:

• cellar hole
• pile on boulders around the hole
• pile-gap-pile (or wedged rock with very wide split)
  

This may be a pattern worth noticing. It seems to me, some of the places on Larry Harrop's website are somehow similar.

Milford rock piles in the news

Thanks to a NEARA member for pointing this out:

"Milford a treasure of American Indian history" - the Milford Daily News

I want to mention that Bruce McAleer has been guiding field trips to parts of Milford for about 5 years. Yes there are wonderful rock piles there. Now that I have watched his video, I wonder where Giuliani got his information?

"The Elderslie Cairn" Video

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Stiles, "Rings of Fire," Trees and Serpentine

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Link to a.k.a. "The Lodge/Fort"

Click on: AKA "The Lodge"

"I have defcribed their firft refidence in the Cave on the Rock. Mr. Sperry told me of two others, one about two miles north, and the third at the Lodge and Fort, fo called, about four miles north-weft in the wildernefs. Thefe I afterwards vifited."

Ezra Stiles

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Elderslie Preserve in Woodbridge (labelled map features)

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Testudinate

Testudinate

On Turtle Island, the key to Native American Stone Work is the Turtle.The photo is a little blurry, but here's a detail of a stone mound that illustrates the incorporation of testudinate features into a rock pile...

The Woodbridge Cairn

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"The Cairn"

Stone face - Pomfret, VT

Reader J. writes in reference to Indian Rock from Estabrook woods:
...in Pomfret Vermont. It sits atop a hill over looking mounds along the slope and faces the direction of the slope with the mounds. Do you see the profile of the face?

Yahoo search results for "rock piles"

I want to call attention to the use of the word "indian". I hope it is a good thing this association between Indians and rock piles has been established. Also, kind of gratifying to be at the top of their search results.

Stone U on Rock Hill Northborough, MA

There appear to be two "Rock Hill"s in Northborough. This is the eastern one of the two - a big hill with disappointingly little to see (although there was also a split wedged rock somewhere in there). Near the top, this stone U faced in a approximately northwesterly direction:

Marks on Stones in a Rock Pile

Near the Thomas Darling House in Woodbridge CT, I came across a rock pile with some possibly marked stones...

Walk in Estabrook Woods (5) - the Hubbard's Hill chamber

Continuing from part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4, here is the chamber on Hubbard's Hill that I first heard about in connection with Mark Strohmeyer.
The chamber is incorporated into a wall running roughly north-south. It is rectangular, turning a corner at the entrance (a bit like the Potato Cave and the Harvard Chamber), and corbelled.It guess it was once fully covered but has been damaged. In the next picture it seems that the entrance structure was added separately:I have to get out and explore Estabrook some more. It takes a lot to get to know every landmark in it. Walter Brain had to admit that this was new to him.

The Indian Rock in Estabrook Woods (4)

Continuing from part 1, part 2, and part 3.

As we walked down the Estabrook Rd south of the Emerson cellar hole there was rock-on-rock off to the right in the woods.
I wonder if it was put there as a signal of where to turn off to the Indian Rock. This is a boulder that "looks like and Indian".