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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.

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

A Bend in Elizabeth Brook - Stow MA

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A somewhat silly video but of a beautiful spot. I am not used to slopes dropping cleanly off towards water with rock piles.
Monday, December 03, 2007

Blogger software acting up

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Lately all the images I post don't act as links to themselves but to a file/attachment download dialog. Apparently this is a known new b...

Odds and ends in the Harvard Woods

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This is out northeast of the horse meadows - an area full of interesting stonework. A curious little structure, probably broken: Another ...

This blog get's mentioned

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Looks like the quality of Norman's work is creating visibility for this blog [Click here] See also this article on the Hammonasett Line ...
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Saturday, December 01, 2007

The Stow Grid

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I went out and tried to make a map. This is qualitative and not accurate: lines drawn between piles represent lines of sight I actually saw ...
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Rhinebeck Cairns Experiential - a video about a cairn site

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Some very impressive mounds made of stone. This is from reader Ji and her colleagues. [Click here]
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Welsh Rock Piles

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Geophile A couple of nice pictures of rock piles in Wales: one , two .

Modoc Indian Prayer

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by JimP "My good helper, stone pile, you give me good luck. I am going out to hunt now. I give you this [stone]. Help me to have good l...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Were marker pile sites built all at once?

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A couple of conversations recently caused me to think more about whether the "plan" that one sees at a marker pile/grid site was c...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Standing stones from Larry Harrop

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Larry Harrop photos....you go look: [Click here]
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Panorama Shots of an old favorite rock pile site in Stow MA

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A reason for showing all these views, similar though they are, is that each one shows a slightly different angle. If you look at them long ...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Stone Walls, Squannacook Hill - Shirely MA

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I have been trying to get in to this hill for a while. Finally figured out how to get in there but I did not see much except the stone walls...

A small but noisy rocking stone

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Monday, November 26, 2007

Old NEARA web page articles

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Have you seen these lately? They are the first few "issues" of the NEARA web page I did. Note the authors of the online articles. ...
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Saturday, November 24, 2007

Cairn site in Stockbrige VT

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Norman Muller writes: I wrote a web article about the Stockbridge cairn site, which you can access here: http://www.rock-piles.com/stockbr...
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Friday, November 23, 2007

Cairns and Stone Circles threatened by mining plan in North Dakota

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" Coteau's mining plan does take steps to balance cultural resources against the rights of the minerals owners to have their coal m...
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Gotland Viking Island

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Legendary grave field with 350 graves consisting of stone cairns, stone circles and stone ships. [ Click here and scroll down]

The Ungava Stone Cairns

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The Carlisle MA town boundary pile

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This is said to be marking a boundary (corner?) for Carlisle but I believe it is a bit much for such a humble purpose. Also this is one of s...

Stone lined springs

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I saw these two examples on two consecutive days. They looked similar. The first is from the top of the gully at Mt. Pisgah. There was a h...
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