skydealer
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This is a little off topic but I'm hoping to tap into all the expertise from everyone here.
I own a 40ish acre tract which is all wooded. There are several water sources on the property which includes a couple of streams and even a small river. I've researched the history of the land and there were no marked homesteads in the past 150 years though I was told there was an Indian village there at one time. I have not found any evidence of this other than a few arrowheads, which is common for pretty much everywhere in the county.
No old bricks, no foundations, or anything like that.
But - There are rocks that are sticking out of the ground, which is something I have not ever come across anywhere else. The rocks are various sizes, but all can be picked up by a person. I have not found any markings on the rocks, I even tried wiping gone down with water to see if there was anything carved in them.
I don't believe that the local tribes marked graves this way as they used mounds and rockpiles, not headstones. I don't think these are slave markers either as there were no plantations nearby.
The ground here in Georgia doesn't freeze so nothing would heave these up naturally, and every one that I found was small enough to where I could wiggle it and pull it out of the ground if I wanted to.
The previous owners of the land had owned the property since the 1930s and they never noticed them. SO - whattaya think... natural rock formations, headstones, or ancient aliens?
I did metal detect in the area of one of them. This was before I started noticing more of them on the land and I thought they were just rocks. Now that I found more I have no desire to detect near them - not if they are graves!
The pictures marked headstone1 &2 are two stones about 10 feet apart. The two stones in picture 3 are about 6 feet apart and stick out of the ground about a foot, as is the case of most of them. Only 1 is about 2 feet tall.
I've also come across several others that are just a single stone. There are at least 6 of these that I have found so far spread throughout the property.
The bone picture is kind of interesting. There are deer everywhere but that thighbone was not from a deer - a horse or cow maybe? The black thing in the corner of the picture is my shoe.
So what does everyone think? Are these natural placements or intentionally placed like this? I've walked through a lot of woods out here in NW Georgia and have not seen this sort of thing anywhere else. I'm absolutely not going to dig them... this is more of a curiosity thing.
I own a 40ish acre tract which is all wooded. There are several water sources on the property which includes a couple of streams and even a small river. I've researched the history of the land and there were no marked homesteads in the past 150 years though I was told there was an Indian village there at one time. I have not found any evidence of this other than a few arrowheads, which is common for pretty much everywhere in the county.
No old bricks, no foundations, or anything like that.
But - There are rocks that are sticking out of the ground, which is something I have not ever come across anywhere else. The rocks are various sizes, but all can be picked up by a person. I have not found any markings on the rocks, I even tried wiping gone down with water to see if there was anything carved in them.
I don't believe that the local tribes marked graves this way as they used mounds and rockpiles, not headstones. I don't think these are slave markers either as there were no plantations nearby.
The ground here in Georgia doesn't freeze so nothing would heave these up naturally, and every one that I found was small enough to where I could wiggle it and pull it out of the ground if I wanted to.
The previous owners of the land had owned the property since the 1930s and they never noticed them. SO - whattaya think... natural rock formations, headstones, or ancient aliens?
I did metal detect in the area of one of them. This was before I started noticing more of them on the land and I thought they were just rocks. Now that I found more I have no desire to detect near them - not if they are graves!
The pictures marked headstone1 &2 are two stones about 10 feet apart. The two stones in picture 3 are about 6 feet apart and stick out of the ground about a foot, as is the case of most of them. Only 1 is about 2 feet tall.
I've also come across several others that are just a single stone. There are at least 6 of these that I have found so far spread throughout the property.
The bone picture is kind of interesting. There are deer everywhere but that thighbone was not from a deer - a horse or cow maybe? The black thing in the corner of the picture is my shoe.
So what does everyone think? Are these natural placements or intentionally placed like this? I've walked through a lot of woods out here in NW Georgia and have not seen this sort of thing anywhere else. I'm absolutely not going to dig them... this is more of a curiosity thing.
