Another Look at a Photo from 2019

 "Serpent Stacking"

If the courses are laid in a manner to suggest "entwined" snakes (or Horned Serpents), then there's a great degree of probability that this is an Indigenous construction (rather than an "imported" style of "stone fence.).

The rhomboidal stone in the center of this photo of a little segment of stacked stones caught my attention back in 2019. It was just a little detail in a bigger "picture" of a row of stones that connected to a big boulder or piece of outcrop at a local land trust that I first visited as a child, before it became a land trust preserve. My grandmother and her brother were looking to buy some sheep and back then it was still a working farm:

I just happened to look at the photo again yesterday - and said "Hokey Smoakes, Bullwinkle! That's a jewel on the head of a snake effigy." 

See: the stacking of the stones, the courses laid down, are similar to the way the Snakes on this Mississippian Bowl are depicted on the ceramic pottery piece:

An overlay of an eye, an Eastern Timber Rattlesnake eye to be specific:

Sometimes as one effigy comes into focus, others almost magically appear:

Sometimes the more closely one looks, the more small details become more apparent,

and one can see why that stone was chosen: 

So other photos from that same walk along the "stone walls" that are supposed Sheep Fences (that fail the test of an effective sheep fence according to almost everyone)

become just as suspect and then,

as one is looking for Stone Snakes,

The Stone Turtles start becoming evident:

"There's that Rostral Scale again, but represented by a stone "instead:"

And one suddenly sees the "Eye" of that particular Snake Row of Stones:

A long row of stones,

a triangular flat topped boulder conspicuous,

 catches my attention as I peruse the folder of photos...

And an overlay kind of brings it to life,

once you get over that old denialism that clouds the study

of these Rows of Stones as Indigenous Stone Constructions:

It's an interesting place,

And sometimes Striking Snake effigies literally can be found,

If you are asking, "What's around it?"

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