At the Preacher's Preserve
Back to that photo from 2016, I observed that this gently undulating row of stones could be said to have been stacked in courses that could be said to resemble smaller stone snakes -rather than stones randomly stacked during field clearing or removal from the road I was walking along or a "formal wall" made using batter boards or strings typical of English stone fence constructions that are more brick or block-like:
What I did not notice until just yesterday was that there may be another snake effigy segment of this row of stones which was in the shadows that day and is just out of the photo:
(2016)
Above: A segment of stonework, an assumed "stone fence" or an "Estate Wall" associated with the first Puritan Minister in the former "North Woodbury Purchase," in the Nonnewaug Cluster, CT Cluster #3 in Stone Prayers by Curtiss Hoffman (2018). It's "further on up the road" from an interesting gateway that has one of the finest examples of a row of stones that may be a Snake Effigy:
Overlaying a snake's eye isn't necessary to emphasize the observation:
Adding eyes and horns makes it come alive, so to speak:
Collection of other similar observations of the repeated pattern here:
Back to that photo from 2016, I observed that this gently undulating row of stones could be said to have been stacked in courses that could be said to resemble smaller stone snakes -rather than stones randomly stacked during field clearing or removal from the road I was walking along or a "formal wall" made using batter boards or strings typical of English stone fence constructions that are more brick or block-like:
Collection of Serpent Stacking photos and overlays:
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