Monday, August 17, 2009

The Mysterious Megaliths of New England

By Paul Tudor Angel

Mystery Hill, the Upton Cave, Calendar I and Calendar II, Gungywamp and Druid’s Hill are just several of the names given some incredibly important historical sites of which many have never heard a whisper.

But their existence—and their importance—is becoming harder and harder to hide as more are discovered and interested folk become exposed to their grandeur.

Sometime in the late 1600s or early 1700s, early American colonists began discovering and utilizing underground "root cellars" made of large, but manageable pieces of dressed stone as storage houses for food stuffs.

Read the rest of this fascinating article at s8int

Photo: Burnt Hill Site-Western Massachusetts, by Colgate Gilbert


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