A Hill With A Giant Grid? America's Stonehenge? A Tomb? And More?
Highlights of Exploring - 2024 In Review, Part Three
New sights and highlights from the year just past —
Spring 2024 brought one of the more interesting sights I’d seen after hiking a site and coming home to look at the LiDar Map (generally, I don’t look at the LiDar ahead of time…). After noting some angular mounding in the UVM Jericho Research Forest in Jericho, Vermont, I was shocked by the raised Grid pattern I saw on the Vermont Interactive Map’s LiDar.
I tracked down UVM's Forest Manager Jess Wikle and she was kind enough to answer my questions about the grid via email. She also sent some interesting photos, including a 1937 aerial photo of the region featuring the hill and its grid. She pointed out that the white isn't snow, it's sand.
Find out more about the Research Forest, the Grid, and possible ancient stonework I discovered there on and off the hill, in this post, or the accompanying video:
While any stonework there was of the Speculative variety, I made three visits looking into this curious Research Forest in the Spring and look forward to exploring there again soon.
Another Spring 2024 Highlight was experiencing the noted Manitou Hassannash Preserve in Hopkinton, Rhode Island. My guide was one of those who helped preserve the site, former NEARA President Harvey Buford. There are a couple of posts here and a YouTube video on the visit and the stonework there:
When you begin looking into the possibly ancient stonework of New England, you quickly hear about America’s Stonehenge in Salem, New Hampshire.
It was certainly a highlight this year to finally visit the site and take it in for myself, touring the site as part of a NEARA — New England Antiquities Research Association — Field Trip, part of the organizations 60th Anniversary Conference in nearby Manchester. And apropos, as NEARA was founded by Robert Stone
There is a lot of stonework and, thus, a lot to see at America’s Stonehenge, and I covered it in several posts and a couple of YouTube videos.
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A NEARA Field Trip later that weekend included a visit to a Receiving Tomb Stone Chamber, a Modified Rockshelter and other Stone Assemblages. Thanks again to NEARA New Hampshire State Coordinator Devon Toland, who led the way.
There are posts here on the sites we toured, and YouTube videos on the overall Field Trip and on the Receiving Tomb Stone Chamber in particular.
Some new sights and highlights from 2024. Kept the list somewhat brief, though there were more places visited which could’ve been mentioned. Some revisited — there were return trips to significant spots which could merit some separate coverage. More yet to share, as the research continues.