Evans Hill Area - Part 2

Part Two - from my trip to Evans Hill in Indiana County. This is the first of the very large, round, angled up rockpiles there. This is number 5 on the map.

This is 2012

And this is the same area back in 1939. Pile number 5 is in the middle of the red circle. I honestly can't help but feel that those rockpiles are meant to be viewed from either the ground to the mound or even better yet form a constellation - I have been going thru some - but haven't come up with a match yet. But my hunch is that if you are on the rockpiles themselves - I wonder what the night sky looks like directly above them during different times of the year. The areas circled in blue look like they had rockpiles in 1939 - but I didn't get  chance to follow up in those areas.

This is the rockpile that has been re-worked as I have stated in previous posts. I believe that the manitou stone in the center came from the outside of the ring of stone. It was set up like the manitou like stone in the front here - the other piles show this same kind of stonework feature. Bigger stone on the outside and smaller in the center.

I'm heading now to the lefthand side of the woods.

This is the section that contains some very large stone ringlike structures with the mound off in the distance.

Some of these shots didn't turn out very good. For one thing - they look better in person and two - they are just too large. Looks like at least one or two possible standing stones.

Another stone circle-like area.

Another feature hard to see in a photo - what you are looking at is one of a couple of semi-circle earthen rings that are sprinkled thru out this section.

Another one that is hard to see.

Another circle of stone with what looks like a "tail" on the left hand side.

And another ring of stone - I know that's hard to really see - but on site - these structures just pop out of the landscape.

Stone Circle by Wall - Another Look

PWAX had a question on a previous post about a stone wall here. What looks like a kind of campfire ring is on the lower left hand side of the photo. It's very close to the wall.

But having said this, it still kinda of reminds me of some the types of rockpiles, that are low to the ground and on some walls that sort of lean the rocks in.

Cleaning an internal section of it a couple of inches down. This could be burnt, but it could also be just plain old leaf debris that is decaying. I'm not an expert gardener. The rocks show no sign of being burnt. So I don't know either way. But if it was a campfire ring - it wouldn't have done a very good job.

But it's still that type of anchor stone that I have been talking about previous that makes me thing it has something to do with the wall and nothing to do with campfire.  A couple of more shots of the ring of stone.

Here is the circle of stone - built into the wall.