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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.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Somewhere near Rt 140 and Rt 290

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The money shot, the appetizer

Rocking Stone with FFC

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Don't try this at home, it can move the upper rock - which you don't want to do.

More rock piles from Middle TN near the AL line

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Reader Norden writes: This one seems to be focal point, at top. However, there is at least one beyond it though the terrain dips a little. W...
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Secret of the Stones - video

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Thanks to Tim MacSweeney for the link: [ Click here ]
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Monday, November 15, 2010

Need some color

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These fall colors were over too quickly: Here is the "best" pile at the NEARA field trip to Leominster: (from uphill): (from the s...

Shadows of History

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We get a link from here .
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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Stone Fort/ Hunter's Blind/ etc?

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Around Fieldstone Lane, Stow, MA: That is kind of a curious "reflector".
Thursday, November 11, 2010

USET Resolution 2003:022

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Here is the earlier, hard to locate USET resolution. Thanks to Rob Buchanan for pointing out the search feature at the USET website. [Hard...
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Edges of Wolf Swamp - Boxborough

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I walk in from the road, dutifully looking. There are at least three other sites on this map so it was worth looking along that edge with th...

USET Resolution 2007:037

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It is hard to find the text of this online (Larry has a pdf) so, at the risk of a copywrite violation, here is the resolution. By the way, d...
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Rock Piles from Middle TN near the AL line

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Reader Nolen writes: This is a friends farm, and there are tons of these piles. The hillside is not farmable now, may have been a zillion y...
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Large Rock Pile - Mason NH

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Reader and neighbor Carol M writes: This is a large rock pile in the back of George XXXs home. It roughly is about 20 x25 feet. One end is w...

Stone Chamber - Concord MA

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Reader and neighbor Carol M writes about a chamber that was first described by Mark Strohmeyer (see also here ): I came across this chamber ...
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Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Some low ground piles from Montville CT

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Ted Hendrickson writes: In regards to you "Graveyard" post, last fall I bumped into a large group of nondescript piles grouped tog...
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Double Chambered Mound

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Very similar to a rock pile with a tail, here are three views of one from the NEARA fieldtrip. I call this is an early example of the ...

Just downhill from the end of Fieldstone Ln - Stow MA: The meaning of split wedged rocks

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You could see a split-wedged rock from the road and there was a conservation land parking where I hid my car so I could sneak back across t...
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