At the top of the hill...continued from March 23rd post

Going further uphill from the last site, there were a few features. A large rock on a boulder. There were rocks all around the ground on the downhill side of this boulder. No comment on whether this is natural or man-made.

A crude stone row on the western ridge just above the boulder:

Another crude stone row on the eastern ridge:

And these stone features were also on the eastern side of the mountain. Single rocks or multiple rocks on boulders:




A single rock pile:

Small site above two brooks

I posted this site at the Rock Piles blog today. Here are some additional photos.

This picture is of the winding stone row that is connected to a straight stone wall. It is taken facing uphill, right at the spot where they connect, with the stone wall just off to the right.
This is looking downhill, with the stone wall to the left. Notice that niche-like structure in the center of the picture?

Here is a close up of that structure:

And here is another that is also along the winding stone row.

Here is a close up of the small wedged rock near the end of the stone wall:

And here is the larger wedged rock, this view looking downhill, toward one of the brooks.

This is the crude stone row that runs east-west. This view is looking down the row, toward the brook.

This is looking uphill a the row. There are a couple of rocks in front of the breakout, and the row is just above and behind the breakout.

This is taken along where the breakout or runoff runs down and there is what appears to be a rock pile here, although some areas are just "rocks all over" so it is hard to tell if this is man-made.

This rock stack is a bit more obvious.

Mountaintop prayer seat?

I'm not sure if that's what it is, but it's picture #15 below. It just seemed so fragile, so precarious (in person). Here is a map of the area, with photo numbers and directions the photos were taken marked on the map:

The two small circles between the 8 and the 7 on the map are to mark a few rocks that were visible, but I can't be sure if they continued on to form a stone row. The snow was too deep to see a lot of detail.
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A Barn foundation and a curved wall

The snow was deep again last weekend. I went back to a site I've seen before, to take pictures of a barn ramp that I looked at a long time ago, but never photographed.

First, the way it looks from the road. There is a spring there, and part of an old stone spring structure. These photos were taken at different times, but the one with green shows what's left of the spring house. You may have to click on some of these photos for a better view. The first two also show the flat, barn foundation right at the upper ridge in the photos:



Here is the barn foundation, from the corner, with the ramp in the background:

I hiked straight up the hill, to the next ridge, and found something interesting up there, just above where the barn foundation is located. A curved stone wall:

Here is one end of the stone wall. I've seen this style of construction before.


Here's where I've seen it before. This is a stone wall across the valley:

And there was evidence of more rocks just off the ends of the wall, but I will have to go back out when there is no snow to have a better look at this:

This is the opposite end of the wall:

I think this picture captures the curve in the wall the best:

A stone wall from last winter

This is a stretch of stone wall that runs along a creek branch that flows into Masonville Creek and then down into the Susquehanna River. It is on the opposite side of the creek from a hiking trail. It's a place I need to go back and look around some more. When I first saw the wall from across the creek, I thought it was a platform pile, but it is a stone wall.

The "upstream" end of the wall:

A little closer:

Looking down, over the wall, to the creek below:

Looking over and along the wall, I took this shot to show that the wall doesn't extend upstream past this point:

A distant shot of the "downstream" end of the wall: