Like the stone row in my previous post, this potential Indigenous Effigy Form was found on a hike Amanda and I took this week in Boylston, Massachusetts. As with any three dimensional form, a video may show its shape better than photos, so I share the above. Part of this video was shared in a Facebook post, but this longer version is Exclusive to this Newsletter.
We came across this Boulder Form a short distance from the Potential Indigenous Stone Row shared earlier:
As I noted in that post, we saw many curiously shaped stones and boulders in our travels, and some had the potential to have been effigy forms.
This Boulder Form in Boylston could have been — and may yet be — perceived of as a Stone Effigy Form, perhaps a Frog Effigy. The boulder and stones, raw materials delivered by the glaciers as the last ice age ended, appear to have been chosen and utilized to create an intentional space beneath the larger stone while also evoking an animal shape, at some point in the intervening 13,000 or so years.
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This Boulder Form was apparent at a distance, its shape distinct. Other curiously shaped stones were next to it, and nearby.
This potential Indigenous Effigy form is similar in design to a Possible Frog Effigy Form I’ve found at the head of a spring in Essex, Vermont, next to Indian Brook Reservoir.
A Potential Indigenous Effigy Form in Boylston, Massachusetts