Another stretch of unedited, uninterrupted stone row walk-along footage for your vicarious woods-walking pleasure. As with the previous posts in this series, I’ve added fade ins/outs to the segments included in this video, but nothing more has been done, nothing trimmed up, turned down, polished or pushed — this is raw video.
A word about words — semantics and definitions: when some stone site investigators talk about stone rows, they are referring exclusively to one boulder high, single line stone rows, not necessarily what others would commonly refer to as stone walls. I tend to use the term “stone rows” more generally, and in place of using the term “stone walls”. This is to make it clear neither “stone walls” — an incorrect term — nor the original, correct term for Colonial and later constructs — “stone fences” — correctly describes the stonework I seek out. My more general use of “stone rows” will occasionally confound those who prefer a more precise application of the term.
But in this case? What Stone Site Investigator Amanda Riani and I followed in Berlin, Massachusetts, on the day after the Equinox was, for a time, one of those low, single line, single boulder stone rows. This video covers that section. Whether this was by design or after other courses had been lost or pilfered is hard to say. Yet there still appear to be some glimmers of Effigy Work in these stones, as you’ll see in this unedited footage.
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