skip to main | skip to sidebar

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.

Friday, December 05, 2008

Un-rock pile related: Graffiti

›
When there are no rock piles, sometimes you photo the nearest eye-catching thing. My youngest son has sensitized me to noticing graffiti: Ne...
Thursday, December 04, 2008

Rock Pile site by a swamp by Rt 495

›
A few weeks ago I showed some pictures of the approach to a site near the highway[ Click here ] As you drive south on Rt 495 passing the Rt...
3 comments :
Monday, December 01, 2008

A curious rock pile next to hollows in the ground

›
A few weeks ago I was exploring out by Rt 2 and Rt 495 - highways that cross just at the northern end of the famous "Boxborough Esker...
3 comments :
Sunday, November 30, 2008

A rock pile and two caves from Groton MA

›
Reader Jon A sent some photos from Groton: [Note this is not a pile fallen off a boulder but a pile built up against a boulder.] First cave:...
1 comment :
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

A large cairn found by Larry Harrop and Bob Miner

›
Larry writes: Bob Miner and I saw this yesterday while hiking the Pachaug State Forest in North Stonington, CT. The site consists of a very ...
3 comments :
Sunday, November 23, 2008

A Bennington VT Pyramid?

›
Huh? [ Click here ] (Note the date)
3 comments :

“On the Archaeology of Stone Piles and a Late Archaic Date from Site SK 155, RI" written by Alan Leveillee and Mark Lance - Review by James Gage

›
James Gage writes about an article that appeared in the Fall 2008 (vol. 69 no. 2) issue of Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Soci...

Gender Analyzer (not rock pile related)

›
I would have been disappointed with any other result.
4 comments :
Saturday, November 22, 2008

Quartz at the junction of stone walls

›
I guess this could have been a whimsical gesture or something with a more specific meaning: closer... I saw this out where Rt 2 crosses Rt ...
Friday, November 21, 2008

Rock piles by a swamp by the highway - Rt 495 Harvard

›
Walking in Harvard is great when you can find un-disturbed woods. Here are some panoramas of the site next to that swamp I talked about here...

Stone Circles next to boulders

›
When was the last time we looked at this? Good stuff. Here and Here

Coming up to a rock pile site (Harvard, MA)

›
(I really have to do some blogging.) Picking up from my last post, I went into a conservation land off Brown Rd in the Harvard/Bolton area w...

1934

›
I found some online aerial photography from 1934 - and could see many zigzag stone rows, including one I walked along this yesterday. The ro...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008

"Crude Tool" Again

›
Here's that possible hand tool again, from over by some power lines, on a hillside that I think contains alot of turtle "sculptures...
2 comments :

Overlooking a pond

›
by theseventhgeneration This is a site about halfway up the side of a mountain in NY, overlooking an impoundment in the Delaware River water...
‹
›
Home
View web version

Contributors

  • Chris Pittman
  • Curt Hoffman
  • Geophile
  • JimP
  • Norman
  • Tim MacSweeney
  • pwax
  • theseventhgeneration
 

statcounter