[WPRESTO]

L for LINKS.

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[jmschrei]

M is for Mock Orange blossoms

[elpolodiablo]

N for Ninja Turtle

[WPRESTO]

O for OSTRICH EGGS. These rhyta (ceremonial vessels) are made from ostrich eggs. The surfaces were originally painted probably with scenes of the ceremonies in which these rhyta or others were used.

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[Arn]

P - Pine bark.

[WPRESTO]

Q for QUERN. Pretty sure an image of this quern has not been posted before. 17th century BCE, with faint decoration on legs and edge.

[smf]

R is for rocks.

[noelcmn]

Here's S and T together- Silhouette and trees.

[WPRESTO]

U is for UNKNOWNS, of which there are several here. This location, riddled with stonework walls, passages, rooms, etc., was once called "Mystery Hill" but has been renamed by its private owner as "America's Stonehenge." There are no records of when these stones were arranged, nor by whom, nor to what purpose although the owner has many highly imaginative interpretations, including a myriad of celestial alignments. The elevated flat stone with incised grooves is called a "sacrificial table," but more likely a bottomless barrel was set atop for leaching lye from ash.

[ramseybuckeye]

U is for UNKNOWNS, of which there are several here. This location, riddled with stonework walls, passages, rooms, etc., was once called "Mystery Hill" but has been renamed by its private owner as "America's Stonehenge." There are no records of when these stones were arranged, nor by whom, nor to what purpose although the owner has many highly imaginative interpretations, including a myriad of celestial alignments. The elevated flat stone with incised grooves is called a "sacrificial table," but more likely a bottomless barrel was set atop for leaching lye from ash.

Maybe there was a natural spring there at one time and those rocks were put there to build a small retaining pond.


V for Valley or View, or Vast

[jmschrei]

W is for Weathered

[Arn]

X of a Dogwood blossom.

[noelcmn]

Y of this perch- as in "Y I am here!"

[WPRESTO]

Maybe there was a natural spring there at one time and those rocks were put there to build a small retaining pond.


V for Valley or View, or Vast

Unlikely. It is sited atop a rounded hilltop, the highest point for a considerable distance around (hence the owner's interpretation as an ancient celestial "observatory" and ceremonial center). The passages slope up, then down, then back up again. Not all of the complex is interconnected. The stones are primarily reinforcing a series of trench-like excavations, but sometimes there are "rooms" dug deeper and roofed over by large slabs. Some areas seem to have flooring of stones moved for the purpose. There are short stairs here and there and there is essentially not a single stretch of straight wall. Best guess by well-informed, objective people: it was probably built in colonial time, probably by stoneworkers (as you can see, the drywalls are quite neatly built). BUT: why in this relatively remote location? Why is essentially everything dug below grade? Why isn't there some organization of spaces and at least some straight lines? Europeans are generally committed to line-of-sight straight-line surveying, layout, boundaries and buildings. The vast, vast majority of the thousands of stone fences in New England run straight and true across all manner of topographic irregularities. It is a curious place.

[todd]

Z is for Zion. He has a z pattern going on in his picture too