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Foxborough Perched Boulder (5)
Date Added: 23rd Jan 2023
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: United States (New England)
Visited: Yes on 1st Mar 2018. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 3
Foxborough Perched Boulder (5) submitted by stonetracker on 31st Jan 2023. An odd combination of perched boulder and standing stone no more than 10 ft from the propped boulder. The standing stone in particular looks put there by human hands, but who's to say.
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Log Text: If this is the same structure as that on the published map, this was a short bushwhack north off the Megley Trail for me and not a 1/4 mile as described. Needs to be verified. Easiest to walk in via Megley from Thurston St lot.
Foxborough Prayer Seat and Stone Ring
Date Added: 23rd Jan 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: United States (New England)
Visited: Yes on 1st Mar 2018. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Foxborough Prayer Seat and Stone Ring submitted by stonetracker on 1st Feb 2023. "Prayer seat" detail
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Log Text: Site is 500-1000 ft north of Megley Trail on a side trail. As I recall it is sitting on a flat stone ledge just above the trail but that needs to be verified. Thurston St lot is best for parking and access.
Foxborough Prayer Seat (9)
Date Added: 21st Jan 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: United States
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Foxborough Prayer Seat (9) submitted by stonetracker on 21st Jan 2023. A horseshoe or U-shaped stone structure. possibly a "prayer seat." The structure appears to be partly buried or the topsoil has filled in to some extent.
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Log Text: Site X on published map. Access probably closest to the High Rock parking lot. Hike down High Rock Rd past the Megley Trail jct. Just before a waterhole, take a side trail north and walk 200 yards or so. The site is off trail about 30 ft on the left.
Foxborough Stone Row (2)
Date Added: 25th Jan 2023
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: United States
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Foxborough Stone Row (2) submitted by stonetracker on 25th Jan 2023. Site now overgrown with pine saplings and difficult to see the entire six-boulder alignment. Several of the boulders are in this photo, flanked by a much smaller stone row segment.
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Log Text: Probably most easily accessed from High Rock Rd parking lot. Site is not far from the jct of High Rock and Acorn Trails, on a 100 ft side trail off of Acorn Trail.
Foxborough Prayer Seat (7)
Date Added: 23rd Jan 2023
Site Type: Cairn
Country: United States
Visited: Yes on 1st Jun 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Foxborough Prayer Seat (7) submitted by stonetracker on 1st Feb 2023. Site T on published map.This prayer seat is in so-so shape. Either degraded or partially buried. Its twin, Foxborough Prayer Seat (8), is only 40-50 ft east in similar shape
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Log Text: Site T on published map. Best accessed from Thurston St lot. There are a number of trails to get there (one being a side trail south off of Megley), all long, and with a roughly 300 ft bushwhack at the end from the nearest trail.
Hopewell Culture National Historic Site
Date Added: 29th Jan 2023
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Hopewell Culture National Historic Site submitted by bat400 on 27th May 2006. Hopewell Culture NHP, Mound City Group.
Inside the main enclosure, this is a view looking toward the west. The large mound farthest back is the "Central Mound," the largest of the group. Closer is an elliptical mound, and a smaller conical mound is closest.
* The "Central Mound" was erected over the remains of two timber buildings with 13 cremated burials. Artifacts found included falcon effigies cut from copper sheets and fragments of human skull that had been cut and drilled (perhaps ...
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Log Text: Site is as described in the overview and comments. A mostly faithful reconstructed site, due to damage from previous excavations and military or agricultural use of property. Many Hopewell mound and earthworks sites have suffered from similar modern activities. Some have been at least partially rebuilt.
Hopewell Mound Group
Date Added: 9th Feb 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Hopewell Mound Group submitted by stonetracker on 5th Feb 2023. Interpretation for the largest known Hopewell burial mound ever built (Mound 25). It actually started as three mounds which were soon conjoined into one as burials and fill were added.
A floor plan from a 1920s excavation at the base of the mound shows fire pits, basins, post holes, and graves.
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Log Text: Intent of this trip was to see what was left of the square earthwork (nothing) and the mounds within the much larger enclosure (only a few slight rises above the field now). This site was not reconstructed, so what you see is the result of ~ 2000 yrs of erosion, plowing, etc.
Piketon Mounds
Date Added: 25th Jan 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2021. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Piketon Mounds submitted by aluta on 29th Aug 2010. A view of the large mound, surmounted by a modern standing stone, otherwise known as a grave marker. No doubt it was thought to be an honour among later European-descended arrivals to be buried on the highest of the Indian mounds.
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Log Text: Was able to locate what I believe are the 4 main mounds in the cemetery proper. The graded way is long gone as far as I can tell. See photos.
Story Mound (Chillicothe)
Date Added: 25th Jan 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2021. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Story Mound (Chillicothe) submitted by Flickr on 29th Dec 2018. Story Mound Image copyright: Bitmapped (Brian Powell), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Log Text: A low chain link fence surrounds the site, preventing close access. However, the mound is easily seen from the parking area.
Enon Mound
Date Added: 26th Jan 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2021. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 3 Access 5
Enon mound submitted by bat400 on 3rd Dec 2007. Enon Mound. The view from south of the mound.
Photo - bat400, 2 Nov 2007.
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Log Text: One of the more accessible Adena mound sites in Ohio. You pretty much don't need to get out of the car to see it clearly. Good for disabled visitors.
Hopewell Mound Group
Date Added: 5th Feb 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2021. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Hopewell Mound Group submitted by stonetracker on 5th Feb 2023. Interpretation for the largest known Hopewell burial mound ever built (Mound 25). It actually started as three mounds which were soon conjoined into one as burials and fill were added.
A floor plan from a 1920s excavation at the base of the mound shows fire pits, basins, post holes, and graves.
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Log Text: Found the extant wall and ditch segments, in fairly good shape.
Luthor List Mound
Date Added: 23rd Feb 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Luthor List Mound submitted by stonetracker on 23rd Feb 2023. Creative Commons photo from 2010. The mound is in a private field but easily viewable at distance from several streetside locations.
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Log Text: Regarding accessibility, the mound is now protected on a property known as the Bartley Preserve (see comments). But it can be easily viewed from several car-friendly vantage points.
One is at the end of the Mound Trail road that heads east off of Kingston Pike (CR-9) into the Kingston Mound Manor apartment complex. An even closer access point is the SE corner of the complex's parking lot. The mound is about 100 yds from the latter spot.
Calvary Cemetery Hilltop Enclosure
Date Added: 1st Mar 2023
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2021. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 3 Access 1
Calvary Cemetery Hilltop Enclosure submitted by stonetracker on 1st Mar 2023. My photo from April 2022 of roughly the same area as the 1895 gully shot. The enclosure wall, if it exists, would be to the right of the fence in heavy brush on Carillon Historical Park property.
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Log Text: Access to both the cemetery and Carillon Historical Park is open to the public. There is a very steep trail from CHP to nearly the top of the bluff, but if there are any remains of the wall they are in a heavily overgrown, trail-less area along a ravine. It may be easier to spot in winter with less vegetation.
Rentschler Park Hilltop Enclosure
Date Added: 2nd Mar 2023
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2021. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 2
Rentschler Park Hilltop Enclosure submitted by stonetracker on 1st Mar 2023. A colorized version of Squier and Davis's map. A detail of the southern gateway is shown on the left side of the image.
Image Credit: ScienceViews.com
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Log Text: The site is in a park (Rentschler Forest MetroPark) and open to the public. There are two parking areas: one on the south side and one on the north side near the river. I opted to walk in from the south side. Parking is available in a lot at the end of a side street off of Rentschler Estates Drive. Signage refers to the site as "Line Hill Mound." The gateway is slightly over 0.5 mile away on a flat, easy trail (Mound Trail) which can get muddy so boots are advised in rainy weather. See picture post for a map of the trail system.
I did not check the northern entrance (Reigart Rd) and trail system, but it may be an easier way to explore those parts of the enclosure near the Great Miami River.
Marsden Mounds
Date Added: 25th Jan 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Oct 2021. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Marsden Mounds submitted by bat400 on 3rd Sep 2012. Mounds B, C, and D lie along the edge of this wood and the mowed grass plaza. They are quite low (only a few feet high) but still distinct.
Photo by bat400, Oct 2011.
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Log Text: Mounds A-D mostly plowed or eroded down to nothing. I'm told E is still extant in woods but very tough to get to through the overgrowth. I gave up trying :-).
Lower Jackson
Date Added: 25th Jan 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Oct 2021. My rating: Ambience 3
Lower Jackson submitted by bat400 on 30th Aug 2012. The distant view of Lower Jackson Mound from across the cotton fields.
Photo by bat400, Oct 2011.
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Log Text: As noted in the description, there is no public access. Just a car pull-off next to a state historic marker. The mound is quite a distance south in a farm field but can be spotted with the naked eye.
Short Woods Park Mound
Date Added: 19th Feb 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Oct 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 2
Short Woods Park Mound submitted by stonetracker on 19th Feb 2023. View of mound in distance from Fernbank Ave.
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Log Text: Publicly viewable at a distance of 200-300 yds from residential roads, as the mound itself is on a private golf course.
Sayler Story Mound
Date Added: 21st Feb 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Couldn't find on 1st Oct 2021
Sayler Story Mound submitted by stonetracker on 21st Feb 2023. The "mystery mound" as of 2010. As of 2021, I was able to find nothing resembling this at the location given. The above-ground level portion mound has either been destroyed or the location listed is incorrect. Photo: Wikipedia, Creative Commons
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Log Text: Unclear whether the visible part of the mound was destroyed or the location taken from Wikipedia is wrong. But there was nothing visible.
Dixon Mound
Date Added: 6th Feb 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Dixon Mound submitted by stonetracker on 6th Feb 2023. Long view of mound
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Log Text: Other accounts have described access to this mound as "private" and "no trespassing." But I encountered no such issues on a recent visit. Parked in a nearby lot for town offices, walked in back and the mound was maybe 100 ft to the left in a field not far from a baseball diamond. The mound property was not posted, but the possible enclosure referred to in the description is posted as private.
Bellows Falls Petroglyphs
Date Added: 16th Jul 2023
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: United States (New England)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 1st Aug 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 2
Bellows Falls Petroglyphs submitted by trylondm on 21st Sep 2010. Closeup of one panel
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Log Text: Saw at least one set of the markings from the bridge with binoculars. The yellow paint makes them easy to spot from high up. Took one look at the access from the outcrops and decided it was a bit too steep and rugged for my taste.