Oldest of the Trees at the Hamburger Edge

Can't even find it now, an image of a sycamore tree, branches raised up as if they were arms, possibly a Culturally Modified Tree - but it made me think of the tree to the left in this photo from 8 years ago or so - and there's more than just two significantly larger trees. I just can't recall...

It's an interesting area of land, a newer Cultural Landscape intruding into older layers of landscapes including the Indigenous Ceremonial Stone Landscapes, evident in rows of stones and other features that may even include those larger trees...

2012 LiDar images, some of the rows of stones, probable Qusukqaniyutôkanash, visible:

Row of Stones and Outcrop topped by another Row of Stones:

Serpent Stacking (A larger snake made of smaller snakes)

Snake-like segment, with "seventh scale" diamond:

Another intersecting row of stones, one of an unknown number of other Grinding Slicks incorporated into the Qusukqaniyutôk, the hand held stone still resting in place:

More here at Waking Up on Turtle Island Hamburger Edge Search:

https://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/search?q=hamburger+edge

Hamburger Edge Search at PWAX:

https://rockpiles.blogspot.com/search?q=hamburger+edge

Waiting for Snow Melt

I find myself wondering what Stone Feature shows up well in a foot or more of snow:

A west facing outcrop is one such place...

This the Hamburger and Used Car Lot Edge of Watertown CT.

This site appears (with no snow) at

http://rockpiles.blogspot.com/2010/11/volvo-car-lot-edge.html

Then the stone row disappears:

http://rockpiles.blogspot.com/2012/01/out-crop-stone-row-and-heavy-machinery.html

(Right click and open in a new window - you'll see the row of stones "linking" the outcrop to "something no longer there.")

Another side view:

http://rockpiles.blogspot.com/2011/02/stone-and-snow.html

and here too:

http://rockpiles.blogspot.com/2010/11/volvo-car-lot-edge.html where a stained stone on a mound 

(which is to the right of the outcrop in the "snowy above photo") caught Peter’s attention:

http://rockpiles.blogspot.com/2010/11/rockpile-on-hamburger-edge-of-hometown.html and http://rockpiles.blogspot.com/2010/11/quartz-stone.html )

Short Walk (Watertown CT)

   Three days into the next round of treatment for Lyme Disease, self injecting IV ceftriaxone into a tube that starts near my elbow and ends in my Vena Cava just above my heart, I used some really bad judgement and not only drove to the store but also decided to try a little walk. The medication is intended to kill those little snake-like and more drug resistant spirals of bacteria hiding out in my hips and knees and who knows where else (everywhere?), but it also kills all those good bacteria that help humans digest food in your "guts." It sort of felt like someone was constantly punching me in the abdomen and I was hoping the walk would change that.
    Well, it did. About ten minutes later it felt like someone was kicking me constantly in the abdomen. I struggled back up the hill thinking at least it's not raining - and right on cue the raindrops began to fall...

     I did take note of new survey flags, property orange, possibly perc-test white and protected wetland blue, but on the way back I just had to walk along the recently cleared "fence line" at the bulldozer edge of the 2 frontage acres carved flat into the landscape:

A Google image from Aug. 2017:

Yesterday: A very disturbed row of stones, but the suggestion of effigy stones, some with the suggestion of eyes, intenionally placed so the eyes are upward, a small snake-like line of stones on a triangular boulder...

I somehow didn't actually take the shot of the snake-head-like, composed to look snake-like with the triangular boulder in the foreground, with the body-like stone row behind it, but the sensation in my stomach had "kicked in" well before that and I just didn't even notice that I failed to capture it. I didn't even notice the white cobble of quartz in context at the time as I moved in for detail of the head-stone - or wonder if it was also a sort of grinding slick perhaps:

That could possibly be a White Ulstĭtlĭ', the "Jewel" found on the head of Horned Serpent known as the Cherokee Uktena - and the second one observed here, incorporated into these rows of stones.

(See:  http://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2018/02/straits-senior-site-watertown-ct-again.html)

I've got a collection started of "Adding Antlers Behind the Ulstĭtlĭ'" here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/34580529@N04/sets/72157676904785240

What else about the row that suggests an Indigenous origin?

Lots of colorful stones and white quartz too, sometimes in those sort of "concentric circular" placement of stones similar to certain mound-like Ceremonial Stone Landscape features, Manitou Qussukquanash or "Sacred Stones."

Looking North:

Looking South: 

Looking at someone's "camp" hidden in the scrub trees: 

Maybe a Grinding Slick?

Is that the other hand-held stone still sitting beside it?

Wouldn't be the first one observed in the general area of what has become the Hamburger Edge of Watertown CT, my old hometown:

(See: http://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/search?q=hamburger)

Hamburger Edge of Watertown CT (Again)

      It was just a month ago that I was waiting for the snow to melt around here.

   {Here: http://wakinguponturtleisland.blogspot.com/2014/02/waiting-for-snow-melt.html}

And then just a few days later, I stopped at closer car lot to capture a photo or two of the progressive snow melting off of that same outcrop, thinking I should go back up there some time to the top of that out crop because I couldn’t recall that row of stones along the edge of that sort of steep ridgetop that sort of surprised me by showing up under that melting snow.

And I will add two images and a few words, eight years later on March 24, 2022:

"That's a snow covered Qusukqaniyutôk leading up to a bedrock outcrop, connecting to other Qusuqaniyutôkansh or “stone walls.” If there are "metates and manos" to be found within the enclosure, then whoever constructed these "rows of stones" was "gathering something and then processing something in this fire tended garden spot," a reasonable person might conclude..."

Interesting stuff along the way (above), I ended up on top of that outcrop, amid boulders and stones, looking west, out onto the Hamburger Edge of Watertown CT: 

Like this in Bing Maps, the Bird's Eye View with east at the top:

Or take a look on your own screen:

Bird Bing's Eye View

My labels for this section:

The 1965 aerial, east also at top:

It will come to me, just where these rows show up someday...

On the ridge top:

NW above, SSW below

Two or three person sized boulders, and many largish cobbles, make up the row.

Precarious footing on the business side of the drop, but maybe some stacking?

I had to get a few close ups of some face-like or head-like stones:

And odd sorts of choices for stacking some stones:

I could easily draw some eyes here, but the shadows help illustrate the two centered stones here as appearing head-like - one with a sharp beak maybe:

Mandatory fuzzy close-up of the beaky one:

More odd choices (for an Anglo-European farm fence):

But perhaps a good choice for a bird effigy in a pre-contact row of stones:

Possible turtle below, legs extended as if moving, ready to push back:

Another testudinate placement possibly, head and flipper:

Something bowl-like?

I'll wonder about this one a while, the shape, the flat stone and wedge:

A little stack on the flat side:

More interesting stacking:

(Kinda like floating in the air:) 

Bird-like again:

 

Right by a stone pile and a stained stone you may have seen before:

Another little stack:

The Corner:

Looking up and east:

Possible smile:

Possible beak and eyes on a stone placed "just so:":

Another metate-like deal with a big fat crusher?

Guess this one:

A High Point:

Note the (bad photo of) the reddish stone:

More atypical stacking - for a farmer:

(Note the stone much like the shadowy eyed one by the beaked stone way back toward the beginning:

Bear?

Another metate-like stone and possible mano:

The bottom is sort of rough though...

More artistic stacking of some unusual stones - little beaked bird in there, perhaps:

(wish I didn't cut off the tip of the beak in the close up)

Corner again:

More stone piles: