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Native American question
willie:
farmers cleared rocks from the field to improve the land. often they were piled at the along the edge of the field, which was often the property line, or may have become a new property line if the land was subdivided.
osage outlaw:
--- Quote from: willie on February 15, 2018, 02:40:44 pm ---farmers cleared rocks from the field to improve the land. often they were piled at the along the edge of the field, which was often the property line, or may have become a new property line if the land was subdivided.
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This is not anywhere near a field. Plus I doubt the farmers would have neatly stacked the rocks they cleared.
willie:
--- Quote from: osage outlaw on February 15, 2018, 02:44:10 pm ---This is not anywhere near a field.
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I am guessing it was at one time, it does look like second growth. you could do a title search or find a something at the library about local history. A lot of small farms have been abandoned in the last 100 years.
--- Quote from: osage outlaw on February 15, 2018, 02:44:10 pm ---Plus I doubt the farmers would have neatly stacked the rocks they cleared.
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why do you doubt that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fieldstone
osage outlaw:
--- Quote from: willie on February 15, 2018, 03:41:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: osage outlaw on February 15, 2018, 02:44:10 pm ---This is not anywhere near a field.
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I am guessing it was at one time, it does look like second growth. you could do a title search or find a something at the library about local history. A lot of small farms have been abandoned in the last 100 years.
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It's at the bottom of steep hillsides. Unless farmers liked growing crops on 45 degree slopes It's not from a field. The tops of the hills are flat fields. There are no rock piles around them.
willie:
down in a creek bottom? maybe something left behind by moonshiners?
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