Open L Shaped Rocks

I mentioned in The Logan Site post that I have been seeing a lot of open L Shaped rocks lately. Here are some pictures of some small rocks. These rocks are at a site that has small cairns and also has stone wall on 2 sides that looks colonial. It is also a half mile away from a large cairn field. The large cairn field is to the SE of this site.





I apologize for the poor quality of this photo - I didn't want to get whacked in the head moving the hanging branch off the rock - I hope you can see the shape of this large rock is open L, however, I have to go back out and take a look to see if the 'pointer end' of the open L shape actually has a point on it or not.




At a different site, I found one open L shaped rock...



...and another rock that is not open L shaped, but is propped up in a very prominent way and appears to have a 'pointer' on it:





These two rocks are one tenth of a mile away from the same large cairn site. The large cairns are to the NE of the previous two rocks.

Then there's this stone, which looks more like the traditional L shaped rock that could have been used as a spirit portal. However, based on where it is located (on a very colonial looking stone wall) I don't think this rock has any significance now...how and where it is...but it has that nice look to it.



This is a boulder with the open L shape - again I failed to notice if the 'pointer end' of the boulder was pointed or not. It is located 1.4 miles from the Logan site (not exactly 'nearby', but you could walk it in a couple of hours) and the Logan site is NW of this rock:



From this view of the boulder, it looks like there is a pointer rock on top - very similar to some I've seen on marker piles.



And the boulder also sported some stacked stone - very nice!



But from this view of the boulder, it doesn't look like much of anything, except a boulder in the woods.



This is a close up of the same picture I posted in the Logan Site entry. I tried to get the open L shaped rock a bit more close up but still leave the small cairn in the background. Looking closer at this one, I don't see any pointer on this rock. It may be worth a trip back out there to look at it again. This rock is located 3/4ths of a mile to the South of the Logan Site.




So, what made me want to post with all of these types of stones grouped together was that I have been thinking about this a lot and, surfing the web, I found a website that has some petroglyph interpretations of "Simple Locators and Directions" - click Here for the link.

I thought the symbol for 'near or close' on this website looked like the 'point' on some of the open L shaped rocks I'm seeing. I'm going to pay more attention to the open L shaped rocks I'm seeing, to look for the 'pointer' feature with respect to where the rock is located and what is nearby. Until now, I've really only been looking for the open L shape and not as much at other features of the rocks.

Also check out "Instructions, Directives and Commentary" under the website link above. The author comments about how a single petroglyph conveys a long meaning which was done because carving a message in rock takes so long. My thought is that carving in wood also takes a long time - but of course not as long as carving a petroglyph in stone - and wood is not as permanent and/or could sustain damage from insects or animals. But if you use stone that is already in a shape you want or just requires a couple of quick modifications to convey a message and then put it in a prominent place with some other stones or marker features, you've got both a quick and permanent way to convey a message. I am just pondering this and thought I'd put it out here. If anything, I'm hoping that folks will pay more attention to the 'less significant' sites to see if they are not just there to mark a spot or position on a trail, but also to send a message or tell a story.