I’ve just released a new site visit video presentation over on YouTube — Possible Serpent Effigy Rows and Manitou Hassanash -- Returning to Indian Brook Reservoir in Essex, Vermont:
It’s kind of like a movie, in that it’s longer than some films — clocks in at One Hour and Fifty-Three Minutes. Longest duration thing I’ve made yet. And I’m proud of it, my latest creation! Had a lot of video to work with — I spent a long time taking pictures and shooting video over the course of a couple of days visiting the park this spring, following up on discoveries made on two trips there last year and making some new ones.
The Lakeside Boulder in this Bonus Footage has an interesting, wing-like shape when approached from the south, with a wing-like stone buried in front of it on that southeast side. You see this in the Official Video on YouTube, where that footage is shown while I’m talking about the history of the area, near the beginning.
Didn’t highlight this Lakeside Boulder as one of the features in the video, even though I think it has the potential to be an older Indigenous Stone Work. It also has the potential to not be one. There are many ways it could be an agricultural leftover, a clearing pile, especially given it’s location, at the base of a hill next to what has always been a waterway, if not a reservoir.
This boulder seems a natural place to pile up cleared stones from around and above if you’re farming, which could explain the stones piled up next to it on its northern side.
Then again, there are stones around it which seem placed as possible Manitou Stones, honoring stones.
There’s evidence for both of these things, likely one after the other. There’s no reason it couldn’t have had a deep, ancient meaning and a later agricultural use. But the complexity involved in suggesting its ancient provenance would have required a necessarily large chunk of time, and with the other features I’d seen and the time each was going to require, I believed that I didn’t have the time to do so in this case.
I shot a complete walk-around the boulder, four long segments, and only used the first in the YouTube video. This stretch of Bonus Footage is the second. If you’d like to see the third and fourth segments of the walk-around, let me know. And I’ll share more of this unused, unseen footage.
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