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Submitted by aluta on Saturday, 28 October 2006  Page Views: 10327

Natural PlacesSite Name: Ringing Rocks Alternative Name: Ringing Rocks County Park
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 5.678 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Easton, PA  Nearest Village: Riegelsville
Latitude: 40.561000N  Longitude: 75.127W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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 5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Ringing Rocks
Ringing Rocks submitted by Aluta : Another propped boulder. I saw no rock piles here, and while there were many interesting boulder formations, they appeared, for the most part, to be natural. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Natural Stone / Glacial Erratic in USA

This is a large natural boulder/stone field in eastern Pennsylvania, possibly deposited by glaciers. Some say it was a sacred site of the Lenape people long before Europeans found it, and as it's an anomalous geological site very close to the Delaware River, that is not unlikely.

The rocks at Ringing Rocks do ring when struck, and geologists are still researching why. Some people say that the site is along a line of "earth energy" or at a place where two such lines meet, that energises the rocks to make them ring. I relate this as it is part of the story of the site.

I've been told that before it was a park, indigenous people used to go there to gather stones for their sweat ceremonies. A straight line drawn on a map from Ringing Rocks to the Oley Hills site would pass through Vera Cruz with its jasper quarries as well as a place called Passer, where there was said to have been an "Indian burial ground" presumably a site for air burial as it is on top of a hill of thickly stony ground.

This is quite a popular spot for picnicking and most visitors just go there for the chance to beat on stones with hammers. You are lucky to get there when there are few others there or when it is quiet.
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Ringing Rocks
Ringing Rocks submitted by Aluta : The famous boulder field at Ringing Rocks. It's true that some rocks here do ring when struck with hammers (try a search for Ringing Rocks on Youtube). Some people believe strange things about this place such as that no birds fly over it. I don't know if that is true or whether it's true that there is a "vortex" here or that many energy lines cross here. I do know something has the effect of bring... (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Ringing Rocks
Ringing Rocks submitted by Aluta : Another propped boulder by the waterfall behind the Ringing Rocks boulder field. The waterfall and streambed area of Ringing Rocks Park is an unexpectedly spectacular landscape for this modest area of rolling hills. If you're not interested in banging stones with hammers, you may find this section more to your taste. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Ringing Rocks
Ringing Rocks submitted by Aluta : A propped boulder only meters from the boulder field. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Ringing Rocks
Ringing Rocks submitted by Aluta : Another photo of the falls at Ringing Rocks, without the spectre of dismemberment. (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Ringing Rocks
Ringing Rocks submitted by Aluta : The waterfall at Ringing Rocks once must have been mighty to create this landscape, but now it is little more than a trickle. For scale, picture people standing under the overhang with plenty of room to spare. The propped rock in the other picture is just off this picture on the right. (5 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Ringing Rocks
Ringing Rocks submitted by Aluta : The approach to the waterfall at Ringing Rocks.

Ringing Rocks
Ringing Rocks submitted by Aluta : Part of the extraordinary natural stone landscape formed by the stream bed at Ringing Rocks Park, with my husband Eric and son Jonas for scale. (Don't tell them I submitted this! ;^)) The stone terraces in many places look almost paved, as the stones have broken into regular rectangles. Although you rarely hear it mentioned in all the noise about Ringing Rocks, this area must have played into its ...

Ringing Rocks
Ringing Rocks submitted by Aluta : One view of the spherical boulder at Ringing Rocks.

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Ringing Rocks Part Of Ancient Volcano Range by marcdaubert on Saturday, 02 May 2015
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Recent information indicates that the Ringing Rocks in Upper Black Eddy Pennsylvania are not related to the glaciers as was once postulated in the 1960s. - In addition to this information, geologists have pointed out that if it was from a glacier related rock- slide, it could not have fallen uphill. Analysis of the rocks there, shows that they are basalt oriented ( volcanic ) from an ancient lava flow, mostly a high- fire basalt, now shattered. Ringing Rocks then, is far more ancient than we ever imagined. The last volcanic activity in this area was about { 250 million years ago } - In addition, the local Indian tribes decribe the Rocks as " Heat Rocks " used in their dwellings. Rocks from the Ringing Rocks rock field were heated in local Indian fires, then used in their dwellings, to produce heat for several days, then reused, suggesting that the rocks have a much higher melting point than normal fires can produce. These are the characteristics of the basalt rocks from other ancient volcanoes. - The ring probably comes from the hardening process, involving volcanic style temperatures. As the ringing rocks cooled, they hardened and then shattered. Round Pock Marks, on both horizontal and vertical surfaces of the ringing rocks, represent more evidence of air bubbles, that were forced out of the rocks during the heating and hardening process.
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Re: Ringing Rocks by Andy B on Saturday, 03 November 2007
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Another link to the ringing rocks is here with MP3s of rocks you can listen to:
http://www.unmuseum.org/ringrock.htm
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Re: Ringing Rocks by Aluta on Thursday, 31 May 2007
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More photos and thoughts from our visits to Ringing Rocks on the Rock Piles Blog here, here,
here, and here.
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