Thursday, April 30, 2020

Jade at the landfill?

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[Not rock pile related] Came across this while shoveling topsoil from a big pile at the Falmouth landfill into the back of my car. It pays t...
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Friday, April 10, 2020

African monkeys crossed the Atlantic 34 million years ago

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[Not rock pile related, but relevant to the question of early humans crossing the Atlantic] https://phys.org/news/2020-04-ancient-teeth-per...
Thursday, April 09, 2020

The Road to Plymouth/Patuxet (Wôpanâak/Wampanoag Territory)

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      “During her journey, Weetamoo walked well-worn paths through forests which her community had long managed with fire. As Roger Will...

Sign the Mashpee Wampanoag Petition

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[During the Pandemic when no one was looking, the government tries to revoke the Mashpee Wampanoag tribal stutus.] Thank you to 235,000...
Wednesday, April 08, 2020

Mysteries of the Kibby cellar hole in Estabrook Woods, Concord/Carlisle

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Here is a place with various funny things going on. A site with lots of rock piles around a colonial (actually Revolutionary war period) fou...

Manitou's "Boulder Ridge" in Falmouth

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On page 62 of my (2nd) edition of Manitou,  Mavor and Dix describe a site in Falmouth they call "Boulder Ridge". I don't rem...

Nantucket Arrowheads

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Reader Nathaniel writes: I started my arrowheading obsession about 3 years ago when I was living on Nantucket. It took me 2 years to find a...
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Stone turtle

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Reader Donald writes:   One of my favorite rocks are the ones shaped like a turtle as we know how important the turtle was to the Native Am...
Saturday, March 21, 2020

The Equinox is Cancelled

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I want to express some thoughts about the corona virus pandemic. Perhaps readers would care to add something in the comments? On the other h...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Ancient secret of lightning strikes at stone circles revealed

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Not rock pile related: https://www.heritagedaily.com/2020/03/ancient-secret-of-lightning-strikes-at-stone-circles-revealed/126571 I thin...
Thursday, March 05, 2020

Re-reading old posts

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Came across this nice account from Chris Pittman, which I had forgotten: https://rockpiles.blogspot.com/2012/06/arrowhead-odyssey.html
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Wednesday, March 04, 2020

Protruding Head Variation (Madison CT)

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A Hilltop Row of Stones above a salt marsh, a possible Serpent or Snake Effigy: The inset shows the view above, highlighted in white, ...

Stone Mounds on Facebook

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https://www.facebook.com/john.fisher.39948856/videos/10151389909908356/
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Greenberry Wilson Mounds - Tennessee

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YouTube - Fun starts around 12 minutes in, when it becomes clear he is talking about stone  mounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DO-K7h...
Tuesday, March 03, 2020

Pits and split wedged rocks from Taunton

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I went back to Taunton, to the east end of Rocky Woods Rd (actually Westville), and had a less than spectacular walk. There were a lot of sp...

Horseshoe in a rock pile

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Reader Colin sent these pictures from northern Westford/Tyngesborough showing a rock pile with a broken horseshoe: This is much lik...
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Thursday, February 20, 2020

Faces (MD)

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 Sherry R. writes, “I read your blog about the little face found in Lisbon (CT):   I have a collection of artifacts found from 1900-...
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Sunday, February 16, 2020

Path at end of Clewes Rd, going down to Terhuen Dr - Falmouth, MA

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One notes the setting above a kettle hole and the presence of another pile above the path in the bushes. These Sippewissett mounds could...
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More and bigger mounds at Sippewissett - biggest mounds on Cape Cod

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I took a friend to see a rock pile I located along the trail, and we both wandered off a few feet to see if there might be other things. My ...

Potential Site in Albermarle County, VA

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Reader Jackson Landers writes: I've come across a site that I don't quite know what to make of and I would really appreciat...
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