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Mexitron
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I've seen rock piles that were mining claims but not two next to each other.....maybe there's something inside the rock pile.....???
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No igor, not wells. Too many too close together for that..and also too close to the bay and saltwater levels.
Just carefully-laid ground level piles of rocks that don't appear sacred in any way, but are certainly unique. Graves?..probably not.
I suspect property markers of some sort...or a landclaim like the old mining laws of the west, when all a prospector had to do when making his mining
claim was to put up a pile of rocks.
I am not ruling out alien visitations.
edit: Hey, Mexitron .. beat me to the mining claim idea. 
[Edited on 8-29-2009 by Pompano]
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turtleandtoad
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These are shellfish work tables. There is a couple on top of the island at Requesion, surrounded by shell middens.
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Bravo! y gracias Sr. Miquel
A great reminder of the past shellfish industry in the bay.
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Yes, that sounds right. I can see the shells scattered around the far one.
Middens, however, are shell mounds left by prehistoric man where he cooked his food and left the uneaten remains. Is that likely here? Would the
Indians build these tables for their daily meals?
Could these rockpiles have been made by the conception bay modern harvesters when they cleaned their shells to relieve the backbreking work? You would
expect huge mounds of shells nearby as they do it commercially.
I guess I'm asking about the age of these 'tables'.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
Yes, that sounds right. I can see the shells scattered around the far one.
Middens, however, are shell mounds left by prehistoric man where he cooked his food and left the uneaten remains. Is that likely here? Would the
Indians build these tables for their daily meals?
Could these rockpiles have been made by the conception bay modern harvesters when they cleaned their shells to relieve the backbreking work? You would
expect huge mounds of shells nearby as they do it commercially.
I guess I'm asking about the age of these 'tables'. |
There ARE huge mounds of shells on top of Requesion Island. The next question was, why would anyone haul all those oysters all the way to the top of a
mountain?
The answer is (to me) fairly obvious for anyone that has braved the swamp at the bottom of the mountain. Mosquitoes!!
The tribe setup their camp at the top where the breeze would keep the critters away.
I've got some photos of the middens somewhere, I'll see if I can find them.
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