Lion's Woods Catwalk Walk (Litchfield CT)

   A quarried block of stone
I'd never noticed before
 at the beginning of the trail to the catwalk:

A rectangular foundation-like stone structure

I'd never noticed before

Further along the trail to the catwalk:

Hmmm...

“A Dressing of Stone:  After quarrying, Stones are to be dressed for finish surface. The stone dressing can be done easily just after quarrying. The stone blocks are cut and squared as per requirements with the help of dressing tools. There are many types of tools uses for the dressing of stones such as pitching tools, mason’s hammer, club hammer, scabbling hammer, spacing hammer, drafting chisel, point chisel, punch chisel, claw chisel, soft stone chisels scabbling pick, puncheon, and ax…

Hammer dressed finish: In this type of finish, the stones are made roughly square or rectangular by means of a hammer…”

https://www.civilknowledges.com/dressing-of-stones/

An Indigenous

 Pootatuck, Paugussett

 circa 1700

 Snake Dressing of Stone

 Back at home in Nonnewaug:

A Stone Serpent above the Road to the Nonnewaug Wigwams

 

    It’s a roadside “stone wall” in my Connecticut town that thousands of people have driven by or walked by, horseless or otherwise, many many times sometime since that last bit of glacial lake ice melted around here. Just when the Stone Snake appeared, guarding the trail and the enclosure beyond it that leads to the river, I don’t know. All I know is that it looks like a snake stretched out cross a little rise of earth above the trail and it is still there in the early autumn of 2021.

    Some of this row of stones is quite intact; a wedge of stones and it begins with a larger triangular stone, as distinct as a timber rattlesnake head.

     Scattered stones that might have been inside that depression? 

        How does one really know for certain?

      Are those stones bison like horns or are those stones to rest elk-like antlers on, wooden or otherwise? 

(Or Deer-like horns?)

A thousand possibilities exist – including the possibility that they were carelessly tossed there in 1934...

 

Hammer Dressed Quarried Boulders c. 1700 (Nonnewaug)

"Hammer dressed finish: In this type of finish, the stones are usually made roughly square or rectangular by means of a hammer…”

If the quarried stones are dressed to be square or rectangular, then there is a high degree of probability that this is a characteristic of European colonial settler stonework.

If the quarried stones at a circa 1700 house overlooking the Nonnewaug Wigwams are dressed to resemble rattlesnakes or Great Serpents, then there is a high degree of probability that the People Living at the Nonnewaug Wigwams were the stone masons creating these guarding effigies...

Multiple Choice Pseudoquestion