Part 1 - Trapezoid Wall - Burnt Standing Stone - Decker Avenue

I'm still trying to get a read on this wall. It's a couple of hundred feet long. There is a lot of damage with most of it is in bad shape. Being this high up, sections of this mountain make their own weather at times. Add to this that it looks like different phases on construction. Parts look trapezoid with a 'farm' look while other sections remind me of an 'indian' look. But having said this, I will be showing a unique standing stone at one end that sits at the beginning of a very large rock pile - mound would be a better word for it.

The wall winds it's way up the hillside which is steep at times. The mound I showed yesterday anchors one end of it. This shows the beginning of the wall in a relatively flat section of land before it makes it way up. I have other examples of this circle-like rock pile which looks anchored by a flat stone (from other sites) you can see in the front - but this is the first I've seen this used in a wall.

With this photo I'm trying to show you the wall curving it's way up along the top of the photo.

This is by far the widest section of the wall and it's also in the best shape, before it gets to sections like this that as you can see have a lot of tree debris. Considering the amount of flooding past and present Johnstown gets, it's easy to imagine alot of rain water rolling off this side of the mountain.

There are some nice size trees growing in the middle of parts of this wall.

I'm now heading to the other end of the wall towards the very large rock pile - mound and the burnt standing stone that seems to anchor this end. As you can tell from the picture the uniform construction of the wall is becoming disorganized. The wall sort of ends with the two trees on the right hand side of the frame before turning into a rock pile - mound area.

This section which sits on a steep section of the hill looks like the rocks were just dumped as in a field clearing pile.

But this section looks intentional to me.

Like I said this rock pile - mound is quite large. This picture shows part of what looks like a sunken area within the mound.

This rather plain looking area with a stone that kind of looks like a mantiou stone is at the tail end of this section of the wall. This angle is from the side.

Heading around to the front of this section you see then this unique small standing stone. It's in the center of the frame.

I have no idea what geologic force could have produced this - since the other side of the stone looks normal.

This is intentional.

I walked around to what is the front of the standing stone.