A mysterious place with stacked rocks I found doesn't make sense

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Ай бұрын

For whatever reason & who knows how long ago somebody spent a lot of time and work stacking rocks out at this place I found. I was out meta detecting and exploring the old colonial farms here in NH when I decided to take a hike and go out further into the forest where the land was not so good nor improved. I was swinging my Fisher F19 and dug up some oxen shoes until I got to the one area and found a spoon and piece of pottery. That sounds kind of typical expect I was in a really remote location in land that was not suitable for farming hundreds of years ago. Well as I got deep in with wetlands and a river choking this piece of land off I came to a spot where there was piles of rocks everywhere. And you could tell by the moss and trees growing in all around that they ad been there for hundreds of years. There was piled stones several feet tall and some stacks were 15 feet long. It was clear that this spot was not improved for farming and it was not for holding livestock because there were no rock walls around. Just out in the middle of this place 30 to 40 piles of rocks.....WHOA !
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@darbysdownhomedetecting Ай бұрын

Possibly Native American or colonial grave. Very interesting 🤔 thanks for sharing 😁

@ktdale1340 Ай бұрын

No doubt in my mind. Often settler roads followed indigenous pathways has often been suggested and considered by those who study such interesting things.

@annfrye5716 Ай бұрын

I agree. Sacred .

@scottnyc6572 Ай бұрын

Rock mounds can be early Native American burials,especially on the higher ground.Theres another NH metal detector channel who encountered same thing,possibly you’re in the same exact spot he was. What is way out in the woods today was once vast farmland and early homesteads.Lots of sheep pastures encompassed New England for the woolen industry as well.

@papawinthewoods Күн бұрын

We find a lot of places with stacked rocks where I live in the mountains of Tennessee and Kentucky. The early settlers would clear their fields for farming or so their livestock would have better grazing lands. They couldn’t carry all the rocks away so they would stack them on top of rocks that were too big to move or in an area of transition from level to a steep hillside. Some of them could be a collapsed fireplace/chimney, especially near the places you were finding metal artifacts. You were definitely near an old homesite. Very nice video. You were finding evidence from the past. If you’re like me you’ll spend a lot of time researching who once lived there. You’re keeping history alive!

@rondathiesen9317 Ай бұрын

You ran across a BF graveyard! 😂 Good oxen shoes.❤

@johnharms6178 Ай бұрын

what a great find- first thought 'cementary'-

@frankmonroe8320 Ай бұрын

No. Cement comes from Portland

@DiggingTimesPast Ай бұрын

Amazing how hard the early settlers had to work to survive… we would all die if we had to live like that today. Thank you for the video, it was awesome as always.

@daisymay4183 Ай бұрын

I just love these kinds of videos. The explore and read the land thru your experienced eyes. I learn so much and it's fascinating 😊

@frankmonroe8320 Ай бұрын

Another really good video. I have to confess Charlie, I've been watching all these years just for the comments.

@martismastiffs Ай бұрын

Did you happen to see the thing hanging on a broken branch at 3:45, it appears to be hanging on it and it has a metal band, and a white thing hanging from it. Almost looks like a white lucky rabbit foot

@arctiknitter 17 күн бұрын

What a lovely little creek.

@steveclark4291 Ай бұрын

Thank you Charlie for the adventure , seeing some very beautiful scenery and learning how to read the land !

@talcadetector4018 Ай бұрын

Hola amigo, felicitaciones, muy interesante aventura y lindo lugar para detectar, éxito en tus búsquedas amigo, saludos cordiales desde chile 🙋‍♂️🇨🇱🗝️💍⛏️🤜🤛💪👏

@R420ISH Ай бұрын

Viking grave like we have in sweden

@christophermichaud7187 Ай бұрын

Here in southern Maine there are deliberate rock piles all over the place. Some are stacked on top of huge boulders. I am currently editing a vid of an area with rock piles. will be uploaded very soon

@ebinmaine 8 күн бұрын

Subbed

@christophermichaud7187 8 күн бұрын

@@ebinmaine thanks so much!

@ebinmaine 8 күн бұрын

@christophermichaud7187 You're welcome. I'll be looking forward to seeing what you come up with. Lots of very interesting things in the woods around us!

@dongummowjrsasquatchresear9586 29 күн бұрын

Hey Charlie.. I've got the same thing in Maine.. Top of a hill, large rock piles and it overlooks a pond.. on other side of pond there are stone cairns, 3 of them on a hill overlooking same pond.. also one of those rock piles has a 300yr old tree growing (pushing)up into rock pile. It's very old stuff.

@granddad-mv5ef Ай бұрын

Great exploration! Thanks for sharing it with us!

@jell-oputin8036 Ай бұрын

Sasquatch decor most definitely 😁👍

@chriseisan5443 Ай бұрын

I would love to have such open forest in Nova Scotia. Most of our land was never used. When I find a path it is usually a deer path not a cow path.

@DiggingTimesPast Ай бұрын

I just watched the SD video where you and the guys found Ebinezer’s cabin footprint. That was a great day! Was there a story behind dropping spoons on the deck when you found a spoon bowl? I was exhausted watching, can’t imagine… you had to have e been running on adrenaline, LOL.

@joyceclark8476 Ай бұрын

Very interesting indeed. Thanks Charlie for this mysterious Not Thursday. Joyce❤️🙏🇺🇸

@ecotangokeithfugittrkkf733 Ай бұрын

Super awesome. Love you guys. Thanks for sharing.❤

@anniecebuckman2838 Ай бұрын

These ancient rock piles are called cairns. Some pre-date the native Americans that we know. They were often used to mark Graves or for ritual worship rites including animal and human sacrifice. Read the book: America BC by Barry Fell. BC stands for Before Columbus. What we were taught in school about American history is very superficial.

@gutfinski Ай бұрын

Isn’t it a beautiful thing to still find an area without aluminum foil, pull tabs, or bottle caps?😊😊

@micahphilbrook3408 Ай бұрын

Where I live in Maine there's lots of huge rock piles on my land, I think it was pasture in mid 1800s and its seems as of they just piled up rocks to clear the ground maybe.

@gutfinski Ай бұрын

Central Maine here, south of Augusta, similar situation on my 77 acres of an old farm.

@allenwalters8812 21 күн бұрын

We have those piles of rocks in small woods all over the place in central Indiana. I always assumed they were the rocks the farmers took out of the corn fields. They are always next to fields. On second thought those rocks look like ones you'd use for a foundation. Wonder if someone started to build and abandoned the project. Maybe they were chased out or something.

@Sailor376also 23 күн бұрын

The high ridge you were on,, an esker? And THAT would explain the concentrated quantity of rocks that a farmer had to deal with on a ridge.

@tinman7130 Ай бұрын

Interesting site with a intriguing mystery and that is a Not Thursday

@olajackson757 Ай бұрын

A GRAVE ?

@MrMikepresley 28 күн бұрын

Charlie you gotta revisit that mysterious place, not just revisit once, but again and again.

@HalfWarrior Ай бұрын

Do you map the areas you search; and do you record what you find in each area; other than your videos? Just curious. This is quite interesting to me as I don’t do any metal detecting here in the SW desert; usually too hot, and ground is pretty hard; I think gold panning is a big thing in the SW, over metal detecting.Always cool to see what you find!

@TheReal-HeeHaw Ай бұрын

Enjoyed 👍

@tradizione100 Ай бұрын

Nice adventure 👍🙋🏻‍♂️

@777danid 22 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing

@RandyLeverett-jm6bw 6 сағат бұрын

In the old days, many land owners would do this at property boundaries.

@suzannakoizumi8605 17 күн бұрын

Thanks.

@e.fifield9034 25 күн бұрын

the old farmers used to pile up stones when they had no plans to till the ground just hay it or if not enough stones to make a good stone wall

@user-wm9cd6gn9b Ай бұрын

Seen these near Ithaca n.y. when deer hunting , cleared for pasture land my best guess.

@ebinmaine 8 күн бұрын

They're piles. Nothing complicated. They're in an area where the residents didn’t need a wall. It was easier to make stacks than rows.

@nicolasrossi5978 Ай бұрын

Nice walk.

@bobgaylord8883 Ай бұрын

Rocks stacked at intervals, maybe to eventually build a rock wall, but never completed for some reason ??

@steveclark4291 Ай бұрын

Charlie could stack rocks be from where they cleared the land for farming ? That way they could plant more crops ! With nails and stuff around there could be nails are from carts or wagons slowly falling apart and spoon from eating a meal during a break from working !

@denniswhite9557 Ай бұрын

Rock Dump?🌎✌️🖖Dig TY DC

@WhatHeSaidVO 19 күн бұрын

While it certainly is possible that they're Native American burial mounds, the reality is very likely much less interesting. As he mentioned earlier in the video, the ground is flat, level. It has been worked. Given the size and frequency of those mounds, they're almost certainly mounds of fieldstone that the original farmers cleared and dug out of the agricultural fields to allow for more efficient and widespread plowing and tilling.

@johneb6084 Ай бұрын

I often wonder why the people didn’t use all the stones and rocks to build their houses ?

@kellyjones3311 Ай бұрын

At first i thought maybe native pit-houses. But i agree maybe burials. ✌❤

@markwindsor961 24 күн бұрын

I see Sasquatch tree breaks as your walking in, ever have any weird stuff go on around there ?

@rosspayne2235 24 күн бұрын

Back in the 1800's people would stack rocks as property boundaries

@jackiesanders489 Ай бұрын

It's obvous that the area has been clear cut in the not too distant past, probably scooped up rocks to allow logging

@MrMikepresley 28 күн бұрын

Very good possibility of Native American activity, its close to a stream, lots of pottery (which you should be able to date and identify the maker) and lots of iron (NA traded for iron, it was useful for tools and weapons); and if you dont find any thing else (ie buttons or coins) that would further solidify the premise of it being a NA site.

@rickdunn7585 23 күн бұрын

Oxen means farming I’d be looking for a site that would have had a log cabin on it the young trees means that it was cleared land the log cabin would of been raised maybe 2 foot I have a site on my land have done some digging like you found oxen shoes and lead also old home made bridle have more targets location but haven’t had time

@roballison3281 Ай бұрын

Interesting site ! Do you ever come acroos Indian burial grounds ?

@donh8168 29 күн бұрын

You could be feet or yards away from a Hindenburg treasure. Might be a marker .

@Sir_Galahad777 19 күн бұрын

this looks more and more like a make shift army camp or a camp set up by settlers for temporary protection

@calliecooke1817 24 күн бұрын

I dunno.I don't see any really old growth. The one area had only 20-25 year old conifers. Definitely nothing over 100 years, and those bigger trees seemed to be pretty strung out. Hard to tell what was there 50 years ago, much less 200 years ago. Could easily have been a small corn field there. If it was a garden for a homestead, in the middle of the woods, there would be no reason to build a wall with the field stone. That's what I think it is, just a pile of field stone awaiting a future building project.

@nobodyspecial1857 21 күн бұрын

Entry to underground cave or tunnel, that's how they block them off, very very unlikely a grave or whatever, move them rocks and you will find a passage way, cave or tunnel

@rogermasse864 Ай бұрын

Native American burial ground. Perfect place for one.

@josephdelp87 22 күн бұрын

Could be a property boundary marker.

@jonathanwaddington965 Ай бұрын

These things are all over the Catskills in upstate New York.

@scottbradshaw6767 18 күн бұрын

That property was probably fields at one time 13:22

@daisymay4183 Ай бұрын

Hello Chatlie😊

@kevine9986 Ай бұрын

Looks like Dump trucks dropping there loads

@docfax Ай бұрын

How much has washed away up there the last 300 years

@user-eg3yv3xr7s Ай бұрын

Maybe, these rock piles are very old native American burials ?

@SouthNJMEAD Ай бұрын

Burial Mounds

@Uncle_Bucks_Forge Ай бұрын

The nails were falling out of the carts they were using to move the rocks. those carts had to be abused.

@ktdale1340 Ай бұрын

Rock stacks make sense if you consider the indigenous people living in the country before ships arrived from afar.

@chrisfegan3475 Ай бұрын

I have found rock piles that turned out to be button hot spots

@brianbloom1799 Ай бұрын

I,m thinking a Old farm stead, somewhere is a old house,

@larryyoderlarryyoder353 19 күн бұрын

Don't mess with them. they are a landmark for cryptids

@GarysMetalDetecting 8 күн бұрын

Do you ever get tired of going back to get the camera? Thats alot of work.

@Robert-fs1pb 21 күн бұрын

Babe the blue ox.was bere.

@johneb6084 Ай бұрын

Maybe Native American grave mounds?

@Lou.B 25 күн бұрын

I just came across your channel today and subscribed after just the first one! I grew up in Ohio and I miss the lovely deciduous forests of the East (Birch!). I'm out West now with mostly pine trees about. It looked as though the trees around you here were mainly less than 50 years old (maybe more due to the winters), so could that land have been cleared? I wonder why the previous people left it? So many fascinating questions! Keep up the great work! (more historical theories if you can, please!)

@rapiddog1491 Ай бұрын

Could be old graves.

@spicencens7725 Ай бұрын

Burial grounds...

@privateerwoodworksnmore Ай бұрын

680th like 🎉🎉

@markwindsor961 24 күн бұрын

Check out Swan Lake Bigfoot

@denniswhite9557 Ай бұрын

Sam sqwanch was bored 🤯👀

@nancyhainline2517 20 күн бұрын

To clear a field for cultivating, folks pick rocks and pile them along the fence row, or use them for them for fences. Not spooky or mysterious at all.