Photos

         Photo Gallery

                             Updated June 4, 2007                  Public sites are marked: [P]

This gallery contains photographs from NEARA members and other contributors. NEARA has access to large archives of photographs, and this display will be updated as new material is submitted. Please send photos.

Photos are arranged by state and by type of structure. Some states are less well represented because photos were not available.

Index:

Connecticut

Maine

Massachusetts

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New York

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

Vermont

Miscellaneous

Field Trips

Massachusetts

Stone Circles

From Colgate Gilbert:
Burnt Hill ~ Western Massachusetts

From Derek Gunn:
Burnt Hill ~ Western Massachusetts

From Edward Bochnak:

Burnt Hill ~ Western Massachusetts

Burnt Hill, Purple Filter ~ Western Massachusetts

From Scott Brown:
Stone Circle ~ Three Rivers

From Ann Banks:
Stone Circle with Center Stone ~ Leominster

From Peter Waksman:
Modern Stone Circle #1 ~ Littleton [P] (appeared ~1985)
Modern Stone Circle #2 ~ Littleton [P] (appeared ~1985)

Stone Chambers

From Sue Carlson:
Acton "Potato Cave" Plan ~ Acton [P]
Site Plan
Side View

Marlboro Chamber, Entrance ~ Marlboro
    Interior
    NEARA members watch helplessly...
    ....as it is destroyed

Sherborn Chamber ~ Sherborn
   Plan
   Front Elevation Plan
   Site Plan

The Bolton Lime Kiln ~ Bolton [P]
Temenos ~ Shutesbury [P]
"Shrine" ~ Shutesbury

Upton Chamber, Entrance ~ Upton
    Interior View
    Related Rock Stack ~ Pratt Hill
    Balanced Rock ~ near chamber

Warwick "Pig Pen" ~ outside Warwick
View of Lintel

From Peter Waksman:
Estabrook Woods Chamber Concord
Closer

Redemption Rock Chamber

From Lisa Grashow:
Alexander Chamber #1 ~ Warwick
Alexander Chamber #2 ~ Warwick
Camp Anderson Chamber ~ Western Massachusetts
Double Chamber ~ Wendell

From Derek Gunn:
Burlington Chamber with Norman Biggart ~ Burlington
Hardwick Chamber, now destroyed ~ Hardwick

From Scott Brown:
Acton Chamber
Palmer Chamber ~ Palmer
Inside Palmer Chamber Inside is approx. 5' x 7' x 4.5' high. It also has a small square opening in the ceiling approx 15" x 15".
Caved In Chamber ~ Thorndike
Webster Chamber ~ Webster
Inside Webster Chamber

Double Door Chamber ~ Shutesbury/Hopkinton area
Petersham Chamber ~ partially destroyed-caved in.
Temenos ~ Shutesbury

From Tim Fohl:
Chamber (main one near County Road) ~ Littleton
Another Chamber, spotted by Derek Gunn ~ Littleton

From Ben Jorgensen:
Harvard Chamber, Entrance
Harvard Chamber, Mound

From Dan Boudillion:
Littleton Chamber

Adams Chamber

Colonial Spring House [P]

Forges

From Tim Fohl:
Furnace - Carlisle/Westford

Standing Stones & Manitou Stones

From Sue Carlson:
Standing Stone at Burnt Hill

From Derek Gunn:
Marshfield Standing Stone in Winter ~ Marshfield
Marshfield Standing Stone at Sunset (March 1 alignment not judged to be significant)
Same Stone, Devils' Hollow ~ Marshfield
Underground structure of wall at Devils' Hollow Contains pink quartzite cobbles.
Quartz Manitou leaning on same wall

Marshfield Standing Stone II
Norwell Manitou ~ Norwell
Plymouth Standing Stone ~ Plymouth

From a friend of Jic Davis:
Standing Stone near Potato Cave ~ Acton

From Peter Waksman:
Red Manitou on Snake Hill ~ Ayer
White Manitou on Snake Hill ~ Ayer

From Dan Boudillion:
Manitou, South boundary of Nashoba Village ~ Boxborough

Foundation of Shaker Fountain Stone ~ Harvard

Perched Rocks & Dolmen

From Sue Carlson:
Cradle Rock ~ Barre [P]

From Lisa Grashow:
Perched Rock ~ Royalston

From Derek Gunn:
Perched Rock ~ Cohasset
Perched Rock ~ South Peabody

From Peter Gowdy:
Martha's Vineyard Cromlech, site
Martha's Vineyard Cromlech, close-up
Cannon Rock, Lynn

From Peter Waksman:
Perched Boulder, Prospect Park ~ Waltham [P] Courtesy of Tom Riffin.
Perched Boulder on a Boulder, Estabrook Woods ~ Concord

Courtesy of Jic Davis:
Perched Rock, Ember Hill ~ Carlisle Summer solstice alignment to distant hill (hidden by trees).

Ember Hill, side view ~ Carlisle

From Dan Hunt:
Perched Rock ~ Upton [P]

Dan Boudillion:
Dolmen ~ Cape Ann [P]

Balance Rock ~ Savoy [P]

Perched Rock ~ Littleton
Perched Rock ~ Hopkinton

Perched Rock ~ Cape Ann [P]

Perched Rock ~ Athol

From Polly Midgely:

Balanced Rock Dolmen ~ Lanesborough

Rocking Stones

Two views of a well balanced rocking stone - Carlisle
View 1
View 2

From Dan Boudillion:

Shaker Village Rocking Stone ~ Harvard [P]

Elongated Mounds & Earthworks

Earthworks Northfield

From Ann Banks:
Jog in otherwise straight wall ~ Leominster

From Peter Waksman:

Oval Mound with Ditch ~ Acton
Embrasure in Zig-Zag wall, Estabrook Woods ~ Concord

From Dan Boudillion:
Crescent Berm, Newtown Hill ~ Littleton [P]

Praying Indian Dam ~ Littleton

Earthen Circle ~ Boxborough Esker [P]

Rock Stacks & Mounds

From Peter Waksman:
Effigy Gallery - Middlesex County

Field Clearing Pile I (modern) ~ Acton [P]
Field Clearing Pile II (modern) ~ Acton [P]
One Rock Stack of a Grid Array ~ Acton [P]
    Sketch of Stack Array Site
Nashoba Brook Cairn (a common sight near Rt. 2A) ~ Acton [P]
Turtle Mound ~ Acton [P]
    View of Alignment with quartz
Nashoba Turtle Mound ~ Littleton
    Back View with white feldspar "cue"
Foxboro State Forest Turtle Mound ~ Foxboro (by Alan Ruster) [P]
Rock Stack Array - Hardwick (shows one line of several parallel lines of stacks)
    Detail of one stack
    Detail of another, integrated with ledge rock
Isolated Flat Rock with 2 courses of rock around top edge ~ Stowe [P]
Five stacks visible of grid (Joe in red shirt on one) ~ Acton

From Tim Fohl:
Split Filled Rock (courtesy of Jic Davis) ~ Carlisle

From Jeff Kunz:

Stones on Boulder ~ Acton

From Dan Boudillion:
Stone Bench in Stone Row ~ Littleton

Keyhole Pile with Aperture ~ Acton

Rock Pile Effigy - Acton
Rock Pile Effigy (view 1)
Rock Pile Effigy (view 2)

Flat-top rock stack ~ Littleton [P]

Table or Bench ~ Acton

Table or Bench ~ Littleton

Petroglyphs & Inscribed Rocks

From Lisa Grashow:
The NEARA Stone ~ Shutesbury

From Peter Waksman:
Arrow Petroglyph (Ogam-like inscribed stone) ~ Acton
Concord Petroglyph ~ Concord Ogam-like inscribed stone, close-up with water added
From a few feet away

From Derek Gunn:
Marked Stone ~ Norwell (compared with Ogam example from County Meath Ireland)
Inscribed Stone ~ Halifax (found by Great Moose)

From Damon Howard:
Ogam Stone ~ Middleboro

From Dale Schultz: (courtesy of Ann Banks)
Inscribed Stone ~ Chelmsford (front view)
Inscribed Stone ~ Chelmsford (side view)

From Sundea Murphy: (courtesy of Ann Banks)
Inscribed Stone ~ unknown location Described as "near an Indian burial site and next to a flint knapping field"

Shrines, Enclosures, and Seats

From Peter Waksman:
Shrine at Nashoba Littleton (Courtesy of Norman Muller)
View with small standing stones
Close-up with white stone
Imitation shrine (modern) adjacent to Shrine at Nashoba ~ Littleton
"U" at Snake Hill ~ Ayer
Small Seat on Great Hill ~ Acton