Mary E Gage
2) The art of splitting stone: early rock quarrying methods in pre-industrial New England, 1630-1825
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Publisher
Powwow River Books
Pub. Date
2002
Author
Publisher
Powwow River Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
The main complex of the America’s Stonehenge site in New Hampshire is a collection of stone chambers, enclosures, niches, standing stones, carved drains & basins, and astronomical alignments. The archaeological community has largely dismissed this seemly eclectic collection of structures as the work of an eccentric farmer named Jonathan Pattee who built his house on top of the ruins in the 19th century. Other researchers have sought to compare the...