Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Small clovis-like point from Concord

I never showed this one:


Found at the wastewater facility cornfield - it was snowy and only a narrow strip of mud was melted out along the top of each corn row. I bent down to investigate what turned out to be a goose poopy, and while my head was close to ground I spotted this little point. I should not have found it otherwise.

The ghosts of the past seen on the pathways in a dust of snow or...

Maybe someday this technology can be applied to rock pile sites.
https://phys.org/news/2019-11-ghost-footprints-pleistocene-era-revealed.html

I wrote a post somewhere about seeing the ghosts of people walking on the old paths, visible only when there is a dust of snow. Cannot find the post.

Sunday, November 03, 2019

Tolland Cairns

Reader Michael H. writes:
North side of route 57, Tolland, MA just west of where Richardson Brook crosses road. 


Reader Joshua H. writes:

I recently found a hardaway dalton triangle and I identified it by the fact it's 100% fluted.  The other triangle I found is an alamance and both are paleo most likely around 10,000 years old.  Both found at Point Judith  Pond this summer

Rockport Turtle

Reader Scott B. writes:
...I believe that the head on the 'turtle' is aligned to true north and that there are standing stones at 30 degree intervals around the turtle mound....

Friday, November 01, 2019

Alan Cressler: Rock Piles and Rock Walls

Rock Mound, Indian Rocks Park, Big Canoe, Dawson County, Georgia 6
Dick Ridge Wall, Chattahoochee National Forest, Walker County, Georgia 1
"Random rock walls on ridge tops of the southeastern U.S. are highly debated. Theories include: animal fences, rock removal for cultivation, fortifications, and prehistoric purposes. Archaeological investigations often reveal nothing conclusive about purpose or who constructed them..."
Pine Mountain Structure, Pine Mountain, Georgia, Jannie Loubser 2

Complete Album:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/alan_cressler/albums/72157678484764728/with/12895105494/

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

NEARA Fall Conference

Warwick RI
Warwick Radisson
Nov 1-3

Register

Monday, October 07, 2019

Thursday, October 03, 2019

More points from Rhode Island

Reader Joshua H. writes:
I found these points recently at Rome point in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. I think I found a clovis or angostura point made from quartzite as well as a broken quartz meadowood point, Cobbs triangular made from purple red rhyolite and koens crispin point made from argillite.  All found far from the water where the river systems meet the sea in the wash out where the tidal pools meet the highest point of the beach.  Any help would be appreciated.


Wednesday, October 02, 2019

More pretty fall colors from - Everett Skinner Road Land, Wrentham



Kelly Brook - A short walk in VT

Drove my son back to Burlington VT and thought I would check the top of a brook up there near the Winooski River. So we drove and drove, followed a couple dirt roads uphill, parked and stepped into the woods.
It is getting hard for me to breathe when going up and down steep paths. And it was quite strenuous. On the way back to the car we spotted what I should have seen going in: a pretty typical little old mound:
 Note the quartz:
 It was convincing.
The pile was by itself; we could find no other traces, though the ferns were thick. This was about where the blue dot is next to the word "Kelly Brook"

Try driving to a distant mountainous state and finding a rock pile.

Tuesday, October 01, 2019

Friday, September 27, 2019

Stone Chamber in Bethel VT

Reader Mark Boettcher writes:

I have a stone chamber on my property that I haven't found referenced anywhere online. It's located in Bethel VT on the Bethel-South Royalton town line on Royalton Hill Rd. 

The chamber is built into an old stream bank and faces east. The dimensions are roughly 10' deep, 6' wide and 4'-6" high. The original height is probably more. The bottom is covered in large stones. I lifted one once and found an intact Saratoga Springs water glass bottle dated to ~1880 under it, so I'm assuming those stones were placed later. 

The roof is comprised of three large slabs of stone running parallel, left to right. Each one is somewhere in the neighborhood of 3' x 8' x 8". 

I'm attaching some photos.











There is another stone chamber on the same side of the road in South Royalton, less than 1/4 mile away. That one is in the middle of a field perhaps a couple of hundred yards from the road. It's larger than mine, but I couldn't tell you the exact size.
Update: In a later email:
I stopped by the 2-door-down neighbor's house the other day. It's been at least 4 years since I saw the stone chamber there. The woman who answered the door is renting the house and gave me permission to look for it, but also stated that she wasn't aware of any stone chamber there. The field is pretty big, and I spent about 15 minutes looking without any luck. As I was walking back up, just behind the house was a pile of stones that looked like pieces of the slabs from the roof. I think the person who owns the property dug it up. This is the same person who put a trailer up in the once-beautiful field next door about 2 years ago. Sorry.