Thursday, January 18, 2007

A Boxborough-Harvard conservation land - from May 2005 Journal

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I went in at the trailhead, walked uphill with a brook on the left. The trail crosses a wetland where the brook begins and then skirts the l...

Impressive split wedged rocks from Stow Conservation Land

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Here are three views of the first. S omehow a large fragment has been split off, slid forward, and wedged. Bruce McAleer is showing the roc...
Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Re-evaluating the risk of vandalism

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I identify the location of as many sites as I can, usually doing it when a site is already pretty badly damaged. I am more hesitant to ident...
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A collapsed chamber beside Rt 3?

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I don't know if I blogged about this. It is from Oct 2005: : I was walking between Rt 3 and Old Billerica Rd and came across what looked...

The Washington Stone in Holliston, MA

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The local legend is that George Washington tried to push the rock over when he passed by.
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Ancient World Blog

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Some articles of interest: [Click here]

The Westford Knight in the news

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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

High rock-on-rocks

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These are both from Kissacook Hill, Westford. The first one is about 10' tall, which is unusual. It has been illustrated before. This on...

Northern Kissacook Hill - Westford, MA

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I found a site here on the northwest side of the hill at a place where water comes out of the hill. I have walked past this place at least t...

Dolmen Doldrums - Flavin's Corner

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Link sent in by Norman Muller: [Click here]
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Monday, January 15, 2007

Happy Birthday to this blog

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It has been a year since the first post . Thanks for reading.
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Old stone rows on Potash Hill - Hudson, MA

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A couple of weekends ago we drove past a hill on Rt 62 in Hudson which had what looked like rock piles on it. Last weekend I went back to ta...

Map of Sharon CT site from Brent Colley

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Always nice to see a map. New information added to the website [Click here] . This fits my usage of the phrase "marker pile site"....
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New Blog about rock piles and stone walls in Nova Scotia

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I just added a link to this blog over on the right. Check it out [Click here] The author makes some interesting observations.
Sunday, January 14, 2007

Stone Seat in the Wall

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This is from Kissacook Hill Westford - at the edge of the shooting range land.
Friday, January 12, 2007

Rock Piles in Sharon, CT - from Brent Colley

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Brent has been researching this site and describes it [Click here]
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Arizona Rock Piles

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[Click here] As usual rock piles are attributed to farmers. In this case Hohokam farmers.
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The Ordering of Towns - H. Morse Payne in the NEARA Journal

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How did Massachusetts towns end up with the boundaries they have today? Apparently it is the overlapped result of many different surveys don...

More poking around on Google re "Hassanemesit Woods"

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Some interesting looking rocks here called "Purgatoire Chasm". Are those man-made? [Click here]
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Archeology at Hassenemessit - From the Grafton Daily

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Curiosity piqued by a question from Jim Porter, I was looking on Google for information about Hassenemessit - the third "Praying Indian...
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