Zigzag
Snake Fences, Parsimony, Razors and Toothbrushes
An abandoned road, shown here above in 2012 LiDar and circled below in an aerial photo from 1965, bordering part of my Great Grandfather’s farm. The roadway circled is now abandoned:
An abandoned road, shown here above in 2012 LiDar and circled below in an aerial photo from 1965, bordering part of my Great Grandfather’s farm. The roadway circled is now abandoned:
A glimpse of the zigzag row of stones in this capture from Bing’s Bird’s Eye
View:
Boots on the
ground, the zigzag segment circled above is plainly clear and fairly intact.
The left is the trail side of the row in the photo below, looking north toward my
Uncle’s house, almost visible through the young trees:
The field side of
the zigzag shows signs of Field stones being thrown up against the older
portion of the “stone wall” that is a stacked construction rather than the assumed
messy accumulation of stones thrown up against a post-less wooden rail fence
known by many names such as a Virginia Rail Fence, Lazy Man’s Fence and also as
a Snake Fence:
There's a sort of white dot on those serpentine looking zigzag, like a snake head and a body:
Filled in on the field side, along the trail side of the row of stones you can see some of these stone "dots," often at the "point' of the zigzag:
Farther along, another good example:
The Zigzag Row of Stones is stacked in such a manner as to suggest entwined snakes.
My associate Dr. Rock Lobster suggests that the stone (rock) art work of the "stone wall" is very similar to these snakes that decorate the "Hollywood Bowl:"
The folk tale Toothbrush, for those who don't understand the Traditional Ecological Knowledge (Science of Indian Burning), says that zigzag stone walls are almost accidental creations, agricultural waste tossed against a wooden rail fence, sometime after 1620:
Claiming that those sloppy creations of legend have been rebuilt to tidy up farms, throws in an uneccesary detail, violating the Law of Parsimony, slices a razor-like cut into the Euro-origin hypothesis, especially when one encounters and observes snake heads along a stone-bounded trail that leads to the locally well known Indian Fish Camp.
Over thousands of years of creating a sustainable system of what you could call Forest Gardens, Indigenous Peoples built protective fuel breaks in the shape of (and acquiring the Spiritual power of) the Great Serpent who had control over the weather and against both wild fires created by Thunder Beings and the controlled and Ceremonial "Renewal Fires" intentionally created by Humans...
That other zigzag row of stones:
There's Turtles in those rows:
[To quote PWAX: “So in
practice Occam's Razor is used, not to choose between alternative hypotheses,
but to exclude facts from consideration. If you hear Occam's Razor used in a
conventional archeological discussion you can be almost certain it is being
used to gloss over key details that do not fit the conventional thinking.” From:
https://rockpiles.blogspot.com/2017/04/playing-occams-razor-card-and-getting.html]
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