Are there mainstream studies Foxborough's megaliths & other major New England ones?

[BostonTim]

Yeah, maybe. More like the one on the left. It was back in the 90s and my memory is shot.



Sorry, I don't recall the part of the trail. It's that memory thing again.



Here's a shot of one of the original stone walls. It has shifted and rocks have fallen over the years. The property was farmland and an apple orchard before my parents built and six of the old apple trees still stand.

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Mending Wall
BY ROBERT FROST

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbour know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
"Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours."
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
"Why do they make good neighbours? Isn't it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down." I could say "Elves" to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbours."

 

[Darth Despot]

NOT SAFE FOR WORK: Google the NSFW term "pair of bollocks". Then Google the equally NSFW term "this is bollocks".

Nevermind :tmack:

 

[Undertaker #59*]

My first exposure to that word (bollocks) was a Sex Pistols t-shirt my brother had.

 

[patsload]

My first exposure to that word (bollocks) was a Sex Pistols t-shirt my brother had.

Yeah I know the one

 

[Undertaker #59*]

That would be it!

 

[patsload]

Here's part of the wall in my back yard.

 

[mikiemo83]

Yeah I know the one

GREAT ALBUM!!

Butt I was much younger then- I remember staying up late to see them on 20/20 or something like that.

 

[ParanoidPatriot]

If only AH would have known about these.

 

[bideau]

I love the old stone walls.
This one is my back property line.


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[patsload]

There are books about them

https://play.google.com/store/books...O1&gclid=CIOvlc3H_c8CFdTo6QodYB0Diw&gclsrc=ds

 

[rako]

There are books about them

https://play.google.com/store/books...O1&gclid=CIOvlc3H_c8CFdTo6QodYB0Diw&gclsrc=ds

From that book:

Native Americans... hauled a few rocks from their agricultural fields, used stone to make fire pits, buried their dead beneath rock piles, made soup with hot pebbles, and stacked a few stones, perhaps just to make a seat. ....
There are no monumental pyramids, ...mounds and extensive irrigated fields which are widespread in the West and to a lesser extent in the SOutheast.

This is the Cahokia mound complex near St. Louis Missouri, the kind of thing he is talking about:

The Mississippi culture that the Cahokia mound was part of stretched eastward along the Ohio, actually. One of them was in Pittsburgh:

Missouri has lots of flat land and not many rocks, so mounds would be a good example of the kind of thing they would build. But New England is very rocky and would be a good place for moving boulders and stones. This is the kind of thing that makes me think of Indian involvement as a possibility at Gungywamp, Foxborough, Stonehenge USA in N.H., the Upton Chamber, or the Goshen Chamber.

Patty*

 

[rako]

What exactly are bollocks?

Testi--es

 

[rako]

I was on meds for something like 14 out of 19 months - two different tick bites

Sorry to hear that.
Glad to hear that you got more than the usual inadequate HMO Insurance Company 28 day treatment.

 

[rako]

more like this?

That looks kind of like a gravestone, doesn't it, with other gravestones near it? It looks like it is a hewn cut rock with the dimensions of a modern or colonial gravestone.

Are these near your or a friend's house? I couldn't find those pictures online.

 

[Joolz]

That looks kind of like a gravestone, doesn't it, with other gravestones near it? It looks like it is a hewn cut rock with the dimensions of a modern or colonial gravestone.

Are these near your or a friend's house? I couldn't find those pictures online.

According to a Google Image search it's part of the Plonk Family Cemetery in NC.

Link

 

[mikiemo83]

That looks kind of like a gravestone, doesn't it, with other gravestones near it? It looks like it is a hewn cut rock with the dimensions of a modern or colonial gravestone.

Are these near your or a friend's house? I couldn't find those pictures online.

it is a cemetery

Yes, hard to find images of field stone bounds on the internet so I found an image similar to the ones we see in the field. I used to take pictures of these but that was a previous company and I no longer have access to them.

 

[rako]

According to a Google Image search it's part of the Plonk Family Cemetery in NC.

Link

For some reason your google image search is better than mine!

You know, when I search google for things, it will say things like "1 million results", but then when I set the amount to 100 per page, it only lets me see about 3 pages.

Is there a way to go for longer?

 

[BostonTim]

Only responsive in that big rocks are involved.

Roger Babson was a noted Philanthropist and historian from the gloucester /rockport area. A millionaire (the real kind) he took, during the great depression, to hiring immigrants in tough situations to carve inspirational words on the many Boulders in Dogtown Common located nn the center, high ground of Cape Anne. His Legacy is called the "Babson Boulders". Been to everyone, I believe, it was a common saturday hike in my Boy Scout troop.

A google images link is the quickest and most compact way to give y'all a peek.

https://www.searchlock.com/search?q=Babson+Boulders&tbm=isch


Cheers

 

[Joolz]

For some reason your google image search is better than mine!

You know, when I search google for things, it will say things like "1 million results", but then when I set the amount to 100 per page, it only lets me see about 3 pages.

Is there a way to go for longer?

In Chrome if you right click on the image you have the option to "Search Google for image." That's what I did and I found it rather quickly.

 

[mikiemo83]

In Chrome if you right click on the image you have the option to "Search Google for image." That's what I did and I found it rather quickly.

thanks, I have never used it before