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Rock Piles

This is about rock piles and stone mound sites in New England. A balance is needed between keeping them secret and making them public. Also arrowheads, stone tools and other surface archaeology.

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Time and Mind: the mind and the sacred landscape

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By Geophile Berg Publishing has announced the March 2008 release of a journal that will be of interest to many people involved with sacred s...
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Rock piles from a site with a pig skull

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There was a pig skull here, which destinguishes this site. Otherwise it was a place with little bumps and of outcrop next to a swamp. The sw...

Other piles from a site with a pig skull

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And of course the skull - which Barb found:
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A rock pile built into an outcrop

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How about this beauty:

The bulldozer giveth...

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...and the bulldozer taketh away. This is the remnants of a rock pile.

Water works

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A hill in northern Westford, a swamp beside the hill, with constructions. Subtle pieces of wall along the side of the water course: Here is ...

More on protecting Spruce Hill

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http://www.highlandssanctuary.org/Hopewell/sprucehill.htm
Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Indian Pictorgraphs including rock piles

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Tim MacSweeney found this page of pictographs on page 78 of a book by Garrick Mallery. In the middle of the fifth row, just below the cente...
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Road straighening - from Tim MacSweeney

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Head over to "Waking on Turtle Island" (the link is to the right) and see how a road straigtening project will destroy some of the...
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Monday, May 14, 2007

A site with tumbled down rock piles

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Every rock in sight here is part of a rock pile. You might easily walk past without noticing. If a picture is worth a thousand words then I ...
Sunday, May 13, 2007

Enjoying the spring sunlight

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I reallly enjoyed being out this weekend. Here is a little preview of one of the new sites I found:

Somewhere in Tyngsboro

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Or perhaps you find yourself somewhere else under the dappled light, with the piles all around.
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Stewart Brook Pepperell, MA - Split Wedged Rocks

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Long drive, short disappointing walk, sandy outwash area. Still, a few nice features:
Saturday, May 12, 2007

Somewhere in Westford

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Early in the morning on a first fine May day. The sunlight shifts around in the mild breeze and you can see out from under the shadows of th...

Ringing Rocks, last part

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By Geophile Above is a picture of the rocks below the ferny propped boulder I showed in the first group of photos from Ringing Rocks. You c...
Thursday, May 10, 2007

Ringing Rocks, Part 2

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By Geophile Tree growth affected by stones. I was going through my Ringing Rocks pictures and found a few worth showing. Here we see, behind...

Not rock pile related

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It is nice to get some color back in the photos, even if they are out of focus.
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Last word on the wet spot sites in Fitchburg State Forest

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Just to finish describing what I saw here. This map fragment shows X's where I had thought it would be worth exploring for rock piles. I...
Wednesday, May 09, 2007

A grammar of white and brown rocks

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The title is fanciful but I found another site at a wet spot on top of the hill in one of the Fitchburg State Forests (I described a first w...
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