By a vernal pond in Sippewisset, Falmouth MA

For readers unfamiliar with the supposed 'grammar' of split-wedged rocks, a vernal pond is a small water source, a place full of spirits. Here, a spirit in the split rock has been blocked from coming out. This spirit - or perhaps the blocking of it - is connected loosely, through a few widely placed rocks, to the stone wall in the background. This wall makes a 'V' with another wall [not shown] just to the right of the picture, on the other side of the low place of the vernal pond.

Makiawisug

(The Little People) of Mohegan Hill, Uncasville

May, 2017 by Ray Bendici - Filed Under: Legends, Odd Things, Weird Places

"Described by some as knee-high tall, the Makiawisug wear moccasin flowers for shoes... They are believed to have the power of invisibility, and have been reported to carve symbols into stone. In addition, they supposedly create stone piles, which are used to help protect the Mohegan. In 2012, a development in the area was interrupted by tribal members wanting to preserve such piles, described as "being made of the bones of Mother Earth" and containing messages that "guide generation after generation of Mohegan people."  

https://www.damnedct.com/makiawisug-little-people-mohegan-hill 

http://newenglandfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-little-people-who-live-under-hill.html

Makiawisug: The Gift of the Little People Hardcover – December 1, 1997

by Melissa Jayne Fawcett (Author), Joseph Bruchac (Author), David Wagner (Illustrator)  

 "Suddenly, the storm seemed to stop as they began to descend into the ground. They were in the realm of the Little People. Weegun led her to a beehive shaped chamber of rocks..."

https://www.mohegan.nsn.us/explore/heritage/our-stories/makiawisug

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.

A real stone pyramid from Quebec

Impressive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JLM6yEKC-k

Finnish Rock Pile - metal detecting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRVmZf1P57I

Also here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gohmTysFbY

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....

"Geoglyph" (Utah)

Geoglyph

Black Friday 2014 trip: udink.org/2014/12/04/mussentuchit-willow-springs-and-hebe/

Dennis Udink

https://www.flickr.com/photos/udink/

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/

Ancient stone circle and pyramid mound just discovered in Quebec, Canada here at LeTerrain. [YouTube]

I like this one, even without watching it through:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTFLgp4RVXc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyf_YUXiEC0

Annular Mounds

Budcat7 reveals another gem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I4_wkXGy-Q

Mounds with "hollows",

Metal Pot in Rock Pile

See around minute 6:35

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw5kTmYdSGM

NEARA Fall Conference

Warwick RI
Warwick Radisson
Nov 1-3

Register

Palette Cleanser

YouTube finds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVtsYxljIjY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2k5Mq3_N34

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEcIomQpl-s&t=208s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJTm2w0CbbY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckTNblCX4Dc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbxqY2ZXpTM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyf_YUXiEC0

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.

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.