Stone Row Turtles from Some Old Photos

Looking at an older notebook, a sketchpad actually, 

At the top of the page was this photo, rubber cement still holding it in place:

       It is a photograph of what I think of as "Turtle One," the first "can't be anything but a turtle petroform" I first photographed back in 1996. Three Archaeologists so far have claimed to see no possibility of human enhancement to the large four foot long boulder or any placement of any other stones as part of an effort to form a distinct resemblance to a Box Turtle.

It's a glacial erratic, of course...

March 23, 2020 update:

One of those Archaeologists later apologized to me for believing I was "totally bonkers" when I showed her this turtle effigy in stone.  She has since reversed that opinion, and of course I feel somewhat gratified, but I told her it wasn't necessary to apologize, as we walked to our cars after her talk about Ceremonial Stone Landscapes entitled "Hidden in Plain Sight." The existence of stone turtles on a cultural landscape on Turtle Island doesn't preclude the fact that I may well be "totally bonkers."
As of this date two additional archaeologists have confirmed that it is indeed a turtle effigy.

A publication by one of them:

Shortly afterward, I photographed these down along the present day road that was originally an Indian Trail, the Road to the Nonnewaug Wigwams - or at least one of them - that's known today as Nonnewaug Road...

Dec. 14, 2022:

5/16/2024

This stones, I should report, are no longer there. They might have disappeared during road reconstruction in 2007 or possibly longer ago than that if they were on the side of the road that I can't see from my house, the view blocked by the old cow barn, my old furniture workshop. Every once in a while I will hear the sound of something being thrown into the back of a pickup truck and find someone helping themselves to the stones from stacked stone cultural features often misidentified as "stone walls," just as if they were piles of returnable beer cans or something...

(Sometimes it's only firewood, though...)