The stone wall starts near a road with a rock structure that is not attached to the wall, but is in line with it. This photo shows the rock structure and the stone wall running uphill just behind it:
Here's a little close up of the rock underneath that little 'shelter' or maybe it's a niche.
And here is a close up of the structure itself:
The stone wall runs generally east/west and starts out around 1500 feet and ends at around 1800 feet. There are rocks all around both sides of the wall, but not part of the wall, so I wonder if this is inefficient field clearing, boundary marking, or something else?
A hiking trail intersects the wall at one point, and then the wall continues uphill. This photo is taken after the hiking trail and is at a point where a north/south wall runs nearby, but doesn't meet.
Then, this wall ends along the hiking trail here:
If you continue on the hiking trail, there is a stone pile along the bank, a short distance off the trail. This photo of the stone pile looks up toward the hiking trail:
Now swinging back slightly downhill to that spot where the north/south wall runs up toward the east/west wall, there is a stone pile on a boulder there. The second photo shows the north/south wall in the background:
And this shot is taken from near the east/west wall, looking toward the end of the north/south wall (the end is barely visible between the two large trees). This is just to show that it's very clear the two walls do not meet, and the distance is larger than a cart path or fence gate.
Then, going back to the main site here, not far from the standing stone and within view of the stone wall, there is a split wedge boulder.
And I had taken a couple of photos of the stones standing against the cairns, once the snow was gone, so I thought I should post those, too.
2 comments:
Have you tried looking for places you've been at: http://docs.unh.edu/nhtopos/nhtopos.htm
No...this is a fantastic link, thank you!! I like the fact that you can see where the old roads went, which used to be the main roads but now are the "back roads". Also, I found a benchmark at the top of the high peak near the main site here, which the state has since devastated to quarry out the red slate. I wonder what they did with the bench mark? I like all the school names on the map, too, which can be clues to old foundations. The map shows a school just south of here called "Slow and Easy School".
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