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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, April 29, 2021

Curt Hoffman Talk

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Dr. Curtiss Hoffman will present a talk on stone structures to the archaeology club at Norwalk Community College, via Google Meets, at 7:30 ...
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Old Sugar Shack Snake Effigy (Woodbury CT)

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 A stone wall-like roadside Snake Effigy, hiding in plain sight: 41.590 - 73.199 I found I didn't need to overlay an eye to emphasize th...
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Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Nobscot Park

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Curt Hoffman writes: Sometimes, you can discover these sites without having looked for them.  Yesterday, I was looking for a way around the ...
Monday, April 26, 2021

Johannes (Jannie) Loubser - talk on Georgia Rock Art

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Norman Muller writes: A fascinating, well organized, and finely illustrated talk on rock art in Georgia and neighboring states by Johannes (...
Friday, April 23, 2021

Secrecy

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 By Norman Muller: I agree with your essay on openness versus secrecy regarding rock pile sites, which you posted on your blog on April 13. ...
Tuesday, April 20, 2021

"Cairns" in Prince Edward County, Ontario

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 Read Ken D writes: Hi, I thought you might be interested in my find at the back of my property in Prince Edward County - Ameliasburg.  To t...
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Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Sad Destruction

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 Keith from Mendon writes [I am adding some text at the bottom]: Just want to send you a few pictures of Quissett Wildlife Management Area I...
Thursday, April 08, 2021

Track Rock Gap Vandalized

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Norman Muller writes: Depressing news about an important petroglyph site in NW Georgia. I've been there, and I assume that Jannie Loubse...
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Tuesday, April 06, 2021

Google woes

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Some people, including me, are having trouble getting to this blog when searching from Google Chrome or MS Edge. Search terms like "roc...
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Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Stop calling them "cairns"

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Cairn - Gaelic for heap of stones. Is a more contemptuous designation even possible? It kind of suggests heap of stone built by a Scott or I...
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Monday, March 29, 2021

YouTube: Mysterious Stone Mounds & Rock Alignments, Eastern Townships, Quebec, Canada

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  (2) Mysterious Stone Mounds & Rock Alignments, Eastern Townships, Quebec, Canada - YouTube
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Sunday, March 28, 2021

A John Martin photo (Southeastern PA)

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John asks to give credit to  Lee Shoemaker  for showing him this row of stones... http://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2018/06/jipijka...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Curt Hoffman to talk at Amherst

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Friday at noon, join the Zoom meeting: The Zoom link is    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/ 82170463557.  
Sunday, March 14, 2021

Housatonic Watershed (Western MA)

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 A photo by  Michael Loglisci: It reminded me of a photo that Norman Muller used here:  Figure 11 http://www.rock-piles.com/stockbridge/page...
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Monday, March 08, 2021

Mysterious Vermont - from YouTube metal detectorists

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 If you like walking around in the woods, this video is satisfying. No rock piles [yet] but they are walking around an interesting complex o...
Sunday, March 07, 2021

Rembering the woods

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 I got to see some pretty places
Thursday, March 04, 2021

Stone Pyramid from Ohio

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  Dam It!! The Lost Stone Pyramid Of Ohio - YouTube
Thursday, February 18, 2021

Sacred Sites of Shutesbury MA

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From R. Cachat-Shilling:  (1) Sacred Sites of Shutesbury, Massachusetts - YouTube [shows a nice grid at 10:48]
Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Call to Land Protectors - Tonight, Nayyag's Fate Again in Play (MA)

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Tonight, February 17, 2021 from 6-7 pm there will be a Zoom presentation by Massachusetts Department of Transportation (link at bottom of pa...
Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Burial Cairns on the Mattawa River

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From an account by an early fur trader, at around 22:40 minutes in: Mysteries of the Canadian Fur Trade: Episode 1 - YouTube Funny how such ...
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