A Massachusetts hill fort?

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andygreyweather A
andygreyweather Nov 19, 2005 03:10:06

Not far from the Massachusetts towns of Ipswich and Essex sits Castle Hill ... topped by a splendid country house and surrounded by lush woodlands ... but ... it has ramparts like a hill fort, looks like a hill fort and bares traces of very old stone walling ... and its the USA ... gadzooks!

PS: My rental car header unit has a Beck CD wedged in it that only plays Devil's Haircut ... why is this?

D daveyravey
daveyravey Nov 20, 2005 18:45:46
Replying to andygreyweather

....I've got the devil's haircut in my mind..........

K Kammer
Kammer Nov 22, 2005 09:40:07
Replying to andygreyweather

I'd have thought the basic idea of a hillfort is so simple that it wouldn't be surprising if similar structures were devised in separate parts of the world.

However, hillfort architecture is a complex beast. If this U.S. hillfort were to share the same layout as forts in the British Isles...

...well, that would be interesting. Don't suppose you have a plan of it do you?

K x

A andygreyweather
andygreyweather Nov 26, 2005 11:34:47
Replying to andygreyweather

http://www.skypic.com/ma/6-5310.jpg

at the above site you may view Castle Hill ... clearly it has a great location that would've ticked the right boxes for early settlers around the 17thC ... yet in essence, there are hundreds of sites in New England that scream with the same energy of construction as European, African and Middle-Eastern sites circa 4000 BP+ indeed Spirit Hill, although fiddled around with does remind one of the Temple of the Moon in Bahrain.

Of course Gut-feeling Archaeology is riddled with failings ... and my gut is bigger than most ... that said, there seems a political correctness attitude towards pre-Columbian archaeology that defies logic. Good ol' boys he-ha'ing about Paul Revere is all well and good in the right context, but hopefully the new interest in these places will fruit some facts.

Statistics of ethnic origin are hugely flawed unless the whole population is screened and the entire back catalogue of human remains gets zapped too ...