I found a couple of good web pages that have some information on local Indian stone piles and relics discovered long ago. The first one is here: Wikisource - The Old New York Frontier - Part 1 - Chapter 2
If you skip down to [3] it talks about a long heap of stones, called the Indian Monument, about one mile below Unadilla village. Under [4] the second paragraph talks about the "Knoll" at Sidney which "was level on top, some fifteen feet high, and across the top measured about ten rods".
The second link is at the Delaware County NY website and is here: Chapter 1 - Geology, Prehistory and Historical Background
About a third of the way down the paragraph starts: "A hilltop stone workshop and other ancient relics." It's interesting, paraphrasing the article, that in the 1930's they discovered numerous stone artifacts on a high summit that is between the Delaware and Susquehanna watersheds. However, they found few potsherds and only two clay pipes.
In that same (Delaware County NY) article, if you skip down to the sentence after footnote 33, there is an interesting reference to a post contact Indian village in Windsor, NY.
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