Above: The corrected imagery for the image.
Below: The original from Mike's "Ancient Stone Mysteries of New England"
which reminds me of an old drawing in an old book.
Above is the Cross and Rail imagery version and below is the photo that Mike sent in response:
Stumped!
The CSL/Stone Row denialists say there are no "stone walls" in Vermont's Champlain Valley... yet I keep finding them here, and they possess what I've come to realize are Indigenous Design Elements which relate to local Indigenous Stories of the Western Abenaki as well as more universal Great Serpent/Underwater Panther iconography. But these stoneworks are much sparser in the Champlain Valley, and seem to occur in liminal, breakthrough spaces, where the land rises and the bedrock breaks through in long ridges.
Still, they say there are no stone walls in the Champlain Valley because that fits the "sheep farmers built the stone walls" narrative - in the Champlain Valley, the Sheep Farmers used stumps to make walls to pen in their sheep, you see, so they didn't build stone walls.
And yet, there ARE stone walls in the Champlain Valley... so SOMEONE did...
Pictured: Stump Fences in Williston, Vermont (from Burlington Area History on FB)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ancientstonemysteries
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