It's a trick of perspective, looking up from the Old Indian Road, where an Uktena-like Great Horned Snake guards the entrance to the house, the Pomperauge Plantation's Watch House, built by treaty with the Sachem Nonnewaug, a good will measure to share with the English Settler Colonists sometime around 1700 or so:
The house is high above the Nonnewaug Road, with an Indigenous made stone terrace that features Native American Iconography, such as the two Stone Snakes guarding the entryway into the yard - or the exit from the Funeral Door of the south facing "piazza" or veranda...
As you get closer an entrance into the yard appears:
Look closer, and you'll see quarry marks from metal tools.
Be an imaginative observer and note the snake eyes and other features:
It's similar to this entryway:
And borrow again some of my imagination (I'm told I have plenty):
Not unlike this Rock Art feature, shown with Rock Art specialist Dr. Jannie Loubser, who also visited the house and the above Serpent Gateway feature:
(Above: Two Uktena-like Horned Serpents, head to head.)
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