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Date UncertainSite Name: Spout RunCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 107.306 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Mid Atlantic Type: Not Known (by us)
Nearest Village: Bluemont, VA
Latitude: 39.101000N Longitude: 77.873W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Proposed Stone Circles in Clarke County, Virginia.Three proposed stone circles claimed to have been built to create solstice alignments with a nearby natural formations, notably, the Bear's Den Rocks. In general the stones are small enough to be moved directly by one or two people, and appear to have been local stones. Non-local jasper stone debris and a worked fragment of a scraper were found in an excavation below some of the stones.
Archaeologist Jack Hranicky presented his findings from survey and an excavation unit at the 22 Oct 2011 Annual Meeting of the West Virginia Archaeological Society. Hranicky is known for publications on stone tool typology and has claimed finding several astronomical alignment sites. He estimates a date of 10000 years BC for the stone arrangement. However, this date is based on his find of the jasper fragments and their similarity to those from a different site in the Shenandoah valley with a jasper quarry dated in context to 10000 BC.
Mysteriously, the Spout Run stones were discovered by the landowner clearing brush in order to build his own modern "medicine wheel" for a Native American Church. From photographs accompanying news story, the stone circles appear to have been found directly on the ground surface.
Note: Archaeologist Claims 12,000-Year-Old Solstice Site. See comment.
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