Impressive Terraced Stone Wall By the Brook & Earthen Mound Site
I am not totally sure the origins of this wall. But it was right by the Earthen Mound site, and looked like a very old pre-colonial Native-style wall, perhaps slightly ruined/ modified by more modern people (no big surprise there). An interesting feature here is that it is terraced, and conducive with other pre-colonial stone-works in the area. Check it out:
Wow. This is over-looking the water (brook) by the Earthen Mound site:
Close-up of the craftsmanship of this section of wall. This is not a colonial or later style (they had different stacking methods) , this is a much older style of workmanship:
Quarried and worked-out stones, but no indication of modern quarrying or colonial quarrying techniques. Conducive with indigenous works:
A section of the upper terraced-wall:
Back to the bottom section- not sure of this is a more modern (colonial or later) extension of the structure or original:
Back to a section of the upper terrace:
More upper terrace:
Back to the bottom:
Upper terrace again:
A stone that is not like the rest:
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