A mysterious place with stacked rocks I found doesn't make sense
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- Опубліковано 16 кві 2024
- For whatever reason & who knows how long ago somebody spent a lot of time and work stacking rocks out at this place I found. I was out meta detecting and exploring the old colonial farms here in NH when I decided to take a hike and go out further into the forest where the land was not so good nor improved. I was swinging my Fisher F19 and dug up some oxen shoes until I got to the one area and found a spoon and piece of pottery. That sounds kind of typical expect I was in a really remote location in land that was not suitable for farming hundreds of years ago. Well as I got deep in with wetlands and a river choking this piece of land off I came to a spot where there was piles of rocks everywhere. And you could tell by the moss and trees growing in all around that they ad been there for hundreds of years. There was piled stones several feet tall and some stacks were 15 feet long. It was clear that this spot was not improved for farming and it was not for holding livestock because there were no rock walls around. Just out in the middle of this place 30 to 40 piles of rocks.....WHOA !
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Possibly Native American or colonial grave. Very interesting 🤔 thanks for sharing 😁
No doubt in my mind. Often settler roads followed indigenous pathways has often been suggested and considered by those who study such interesting things.
I agree. Sacred .
You ran across a BF graveyard! 😂 Good oxen shoes.❤
I just love these kinds of videos. The explore and read the land thru your experienced eyes. I learn so much and it's fascinating 😊
Another really good video. I have to confess Charlie, I've been watching all these years just for the comments.
Rock mounds can be early Native American burials,especially on the higher ground.Theres another NH metal detector channel who encountered same thing,possibly you’re in the same exact spot he was.
What is way out in the woods today was once vast farmland and early homesteads.Lots of sheep pastures encompassed New England for the woolen industry as well.
They could also be there because of clearing the land so they can grow food
what a great find- first thought 'cementary'-
No. Cement comes from Portland
Amazing how hard the early settlers had to work to survive… we would all die if we had to live like that today. Thank you for the video, it was awesome as always.
Thank you Charlie for the adventure , seeing some very beautiful scenery and learning how to read the land !
Great exploration! Thanks for sharing it with us!
I always enjoy your videos and how you show the areas are with your videos.
Super awesome. Love you guys. Thanks for sharing.❤
I truly enjoy your videos. You always educate us about what you are doing in your videos.
Here in southern Maine there are deliberate rock piles all over the place. Some are stacked on top of huge boulders. I am currently editing a vid of an area with rock piles. will be uploaded very soon
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@@ebinmaine thanks so much!
@christophermichaud7187 You're welcome. I'll be looking forward to seeing what you come up with. Lots of very interesting things in the woods around us!
These ancient rock piles are called cairns. Some pre-date the native Americans that we know. They were often used to mark Graves or for ritual worship rites including animal and human sacrifice. Read the book: America BC by Barry Fell.
BC stands for Before Columbus. What we were taught in school about American history is very superficial.
Very interesting indeed. Thanks Charlie for this mysterious Not Thursday. Joyce❤️🙏🇺🇸
Did you happen to see the thing hanging on a broken branch at 3:45, it appears to be hanging on it and it has a metal band, and a white thing hanging from it. Almost looks like a white lucky rabbit foot
Hola amigo, felicitaciones, muy interesante aventura y lindo lugar para detectar, éxito en tus búsquedas amigo, saludos cordiales desde chile 🙋♂️🇨🇱🗝️💍⛏️🤜🤛💪👏
Farmers used to pile rocks on the side of a field. Doesn't really signify anything except the hard work to clear a field for planting.
Hey Charlie.. I've got the same thing in Maine.. Top of a hill, large rock piles and it overlooks a pond.. on other side of pond there are stone cairns, 3 of them on a hill overlooking same pond.. also one of those rock piles has a 300yr old tree growing (pushing)up into rock pile. It's very old stuff.
I just watched the SD video where you and the guys found Ebinezer’s cabin footprint. That was a great day! Was there a story behind dropping spoons on the deck when you found a spoon bowl?
I was exhausted watching, can’t imagine… you had to have e been running on adrenaline, LOL.
I would love to have such open forest in Nova Scotia. Most of our land was never used. When I find a path it is usually a deer path not a cow path.
Where I live in Maine there's lots of huge rock piles on my land, I think it was pasture in mid 1800s and its seems as of they just piled up rocks to clear the ground maybe.
Central Maine here, south of Augusta, similar situation on my 77 acres of an old farm.
We find a lot of places with stacked rocks where I live in the mountains of Tennessee and Kentucky. The early settlers would clear their fields for farming or so their livestock would have better grazing lands. They couldn’t carry all the rocks away so they would stack them on top of rocks that were too big to move or in an area of transition from level to a steep hillside. Some of them could be a collapsed fireplace/chimney, especially near the places you were finding metal artifacts. You were definitely near an old homesite.
Very nice video. You were finding evidence from the past. If you’re like me you’ll spend a lot of time researching who once lived there. You’re keeping history alive!
Viking grave like we have in sweden
What a lovely little creek.
Nice adventure 👍🙋🏻♂️
Isn’t it a beautiful thing to still find an area without aluminum foil, pull tabs, or bottle caps?😊😊
Sasquatch decor most definitely 😁👍
I’ve found stone stacks that have no explanation, out in the middle of the wilderness. I believe they might be rodent traps. I’ve had a Sasquatch interaction right after I found my first one. The first one looked like a small building and placed where it would catch the sun most of the day in winter. I also heard something rummaging through rocks in a quarry once. I couldn’t get where I could see what was moving the rocks without being detected, however I’ve had Sasquatch interaction there more than once, so I’m thinking that it was likely a Sasquatch looking for rodents. One day I began hiking out from an area close to that quarry and there was a mouse sitting in the middle of the road. I believe it was a gift. It was just sitting there looking at me. At closer inspection it had both its legs twisted and broken. I didn’t take it, of course, and heard two trees go down on my next two visits. He knows I don’t eat live rodents now and all is good. I have almost weekly interaction with them and have seen them over a dozen times, and I couldn’t care less if you believe me or not. I would just suggest you keep an open mind, because this world is a lot weirder than you can imagine.
Charlie you gotta revisit that mysterious place, not just revisit once, but again and again.
I found such piles on my property. Old timer informed me when they were young their job was getting rock from the fields and stacking them. Reason being the farmer know where the rock was
Would take much effort to move or create those rocks piles. I am curious as to the why part of making the rock piles ? Lots of old human activity there. Very intriguing ! Thanks for bring us along on you're journey !
Thanks for sharing
A lot of times stacked rocks are the result of wind blown trees. The rocks are pulled up in the root ball. The tree rots away and then the soil erodes leaving a stack of rocks. A lot of people misinterpret them for graves.
A GRAVE ?
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If I found the stacked rocks, I would think, mining claim. Look for a Tabaco can with a claim notice it it. LIkely dated in 1920's or 30's. A mining claim required a minimum of six stacks of rocks or posts that would delineate a claim. It is probably in the cloud so, I will not explain.
Interesting site with a intriguing mystery and that is a Not Thursday
They're piles. Nothing complicated. They're in an area where the residents didn’t need a wall. It was easier to make stacks than rows.
Do you map the areas you search; and do you record what you find in each area; other than your videos? Just curious. This is quite interesting to me as I don’t do any metal detecting here in the SW desert; usually too hot, and ground is pretty hard; I think gold panning is a big thing in the SW, over metal detecting.Always cool to see what you find!
Nice walk.
We have those piles of rocks in small woods all over the place in central Indiana. I always assumed they were the rocks the farmers took out of the corn fields. They are always next to fields. On second thought those rocks look like ones you'd use for a foundation. Wonder if someone started to build and abandoned the project. Maybe they were chased out or something.
Charlie could stack rocks be from where they cleared the land for farming ? That way they could plant more crops ! With nails and stuff around there could be nails are from carts or wagons slowly falling apart and spoon from eating a meal during a break from working !
Thanks.
Seen these near Ithaca n.y. when deer hunting , cleared for pasture land my best guess.
The high ridge you were on,, an esker? And THAT would explain the concentrated quantity of rocks that a farmer had to deal with on a ridge.
Rocks stacked at intervals, maybe to eventually build a rock wall, but never completed for some reason ??
the old farmers used to pile up stones when they had no plans to till the ground just hay it or if not enough stones to make a good stone wall
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While it certainly is possible that they're Native American burial mounds, the reality is very likely much less interesting. As he mentioned earlier in the video, the ground is flat, level. It has been worked. Given the size and frequency of those mounds, they're almost certainly mounds of fieldstone that the original farmers cleared and dug out of the agricultural fields to allow for more efficient and widespread plowing and tilling.
Many Homesteads have been long forgotten,a pile if Rocks may indicate a now non existent Field for livestock.
At first i thought maybe native pit-houses. But i agree maybe burials. ✌❤
Very good possibility of Native American activity, its close to a stream, lots of pottery (which you should be able to date and identify the maker) and lots of iron (NA traded for iron, it was useful for tools and weapons); and if you dont find any thing else (ie buttons or coins) that would further solidify the premise of it being a NA site.
Oxen means farming I’d be looking for a site that would have had a log cabin on it the young trees means that it was cleared land the log cabin would of been raised maybe 2 foot I have a site on my land have done some digging like you found oxen shoes and lead also old home made bridle have more targets location but haven’t had time
Interesting site ! Do you ever come acroos Indian burial grounds ?
Look at the average age of the surrounding trees. They're not that old. My guess is that was a small farm until quite recently, maybe until 75 years ago. Someone's little homestead. Now it's going back to forest.
I often wonder why the people didn’t use all the stones and rocks to build their houses ?
What would the original timber have been in this area? Big chestnut, maybe? Big hardwoods?
I see Sasquatch tree breaks as your walking in, ever have any weird stuff go on around there ?
It's obvous that the area has been clear cut in the not too distant past, probably scooped up rocks to allow logging
You could be feet or yards away from a Hindenburg treasure. Might be a marker .
In the old days, many land owners would do this at property boundaries.
Could be a property boundary marker.
Sasquatch graveyard? Lots of signs X's and learners and areas blocked between a clearing and the wetlands. No structures, however.
These things are all over the Catskills in upstate New York.
Entry to underground cave or tunnel, that's how they block them off, very very unlikely a grave or whatever, move them rocks and you will find a passage way, cave or tunnel
this looks more and more like a make shift army camp or a camp set up by settlers for temporary protection
How much has washed away up there the last 300 years
I dunno.I don't see any really old growth. The one area had only 20-25 year old conifers. Definitely nothing over 100 years, and those bigger trees seemed to be pretty strung out. Hard to tell what was there 50 years ago, much less 200 years ago. Could easily have been a small corn field there. If it was a garden for a homestead, in the middle of the woods, there would be no reason to build a wall with the field stone. That's what I think it is, just a pile of field stone awaiting a future building project.
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Native American burial ground. Perfect place for one.
I,m thinking a Old farm stead, somewhere is a old house,
That property was probably fields at one time 13:22
Back in the 1800's people would stack rocks as property boundaries
Looks like Dump trucks dropping there loads
Maybe, these rock piles are very old native American burials ?
The nails were falling out of the carts they were using to move the rocks. those carts had to be abused.
Burial Mounds
I have found rock piles that turned out to be button hot spots
They were cleared from plowing fields for farming and piled out of the way
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Rock stacks make sense if you consider the indigenous people living in the country before ships arrived from afar.
To clear a field for cultivating, folks pick rocks and pile them along the fence row, or use them for them for fences. Not spooky or mysterious at all.
Could be old graves.
Burial grounds...
Babe the blue ox.was bere.
Maybe Native American grave mounds?
Do you ever get tired of going back to get the camera? Thats alot of work.
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I just came across your channel today and subscribed after just the first one! I grew up in Ohio and I miss the lovely deciduous forests of the East (Birch!). I'm out West now with mostly pine trees about. It looked as though the trees around you here were mainly less than 50 years old (maybe more due to the winters), so could that land have been cleared? I wonder why the previous people left it? So many fascinating questions! Keep up the great work! (more historical theories if you can, please!)
Sam sqwanch was bored 🤯👀
Don't mess with them. they are a landmark for cryptids
Its the Blair Witch.
Probably a burial site
Native Americans
I agree with darbysdownhomedetecting. 100percent
Signs of Native American usage 🫢,... maybe...?
Interesting place! So many questions!
Very cool stuff!!
I like this place 👍🏻
????? Interesting ❤