From the side:
There is no reason to assume this is a ceremonial structure. But what is it? It was the southernmost bedrock extremity of a hill, coming down to the edge of water to the south.
In this picture the water/south is to the right and back.
Note the broken up boulder in the background, it was one of several like it.
Nothing much to say here except that when there are quarried or split boulders I imagine there to have been lots of rock fragments and it is these fragments which are collected together to form the rock piles.
In the picture, the double pile is in the center, actually it is a pile connected to a larger fixed boulder. An auxilliary pile and another smaller fixed boulder are to the right. Beyond the double pile, to the left and at edge of the picture is the stone circle with the low stone wall not visible in the photo but back in there cutting diagonally across from upper left to lower right (following by coincidence the direction of light and shadow). The circle:
This video gives a bit of the layout: 
That is a nice piece of quartz, as a grace note. Other piles were in less good repair: 
This shows an idealized topography with a hill to the right and a rather steep slope to the left. The upper left of the picture shows a higher ridge ending with a slight dip and then a levelling off towards the bottom of the picture. Within the dip is a cluster of rock piles, seemingly formed in lines pointing outward and also an interesting feature of a circular "seat" with a view down a short low stone wall. The most prominent pile in this cluster is a sort of double pile (I'll show it later). I had the feeling that joining two piles was a way of getting two different alignments out of a single structure, except it is not quite right - a fudge factor.
Off to the left was the edge of the steepest drop-off. Right along that edge were two rock piles. Here is one, with the view outward to the left.
The other:
As I look at these two piles, each of them seems to be a small curved "U" structure facing outwards. The first one had an additional feature: a small standing stone behind it:
Here is a last look up the ramp, with a piece of quartz at the center:
So here is a site that has completely undisturbed structure, though the piles are falling apart. I'll show the upper site in the next post.
You can see a rock pile next to it. It is pretty well constructed.
Another pile was nearby, not quite so well defined. Blending in with larger rocks. Notice the background
Where you can see a horizontal line through the picture, is the edge of a terrace or berm that is clearly artificial. There was another such berm fifty yards or so down the southwest side of the hill. I assumed these were from agriculture but what is the evidence?
where the gray outline is a hole in the ground and the black square is a boulder. Here is a picture of the hole:
I am not sure if the hole was in line or not. I think it was tangent to the line.
Here is a detail of the far pile:
A few others along the same line:
It is a stretch to see these piles having one vertical side (a feature associated to marker piles) but it is not impossible. The piles are well defined but pretty beat up.
It is as though the boulders were dumped down almost on top of a rock pile site. Which sounds implausible.
Note the four blocks of rock: 
And the sizeable rock pile:
Here is something familiar:
There was a big "borrow" pit nearby with the sand or gravel removed, so it seemed completely natural to assume this path-side collection of cobbles was just discards from removing the sand and gravel. But I had a hard time squaring that practical use with some of the other features nearby going up the hillside. 
Since I had seen several examples of short stretches of stone wall coming down the sides of ridges a quarter mile away (overlooking the Mill Pond [click here]) the presumption might be that this is another such impractical feature. Here is the view from above:
Starting a few feet from the top of that short stretch was another short wall contouring the hill:
Walking along this wall and looking back downhill I saw several rock piles, all in bad shape:
The solitary quartz could be deliberate or random.
I could not tell what this place was;
some kind of site.
Norman Muller sent this in. There was no additional information. My first thought was "ceremonial" then, on closer examination, I was thinking this might be anglo. Are those separate rock piles stone piers?
and saw a small beige animal, about the size of a fox. I should have frozen and gotten my camera ready. Instead I walked on to get a better look. The animal - a wildcat - looked my way, showing rounded perked up ears and then it dashed off.
All my life I heard there were bobcats around but never saw so much as a possible track in the snow. This was a once in a lifetime viewing.
