Bucks County PA Sacred Ceremonial Stone Landscape

Rock piles covered with leaves are not exciting viewing, but here's one picture as a sample. This site probably had close to forty piles. Whether or not piles like this were burials is controversial. There is no doubt that indigenous people sometimes marked burials with cairns, but there are a number of other theories about what large cairn fields like this represent. Some say they are often marker piles, others that a young person doing a vision quest at an important site would build a rock pile as part of the experience, and thus large fields would accumulate over the years. Rock piles near springs may have been built as offerings at times of drought or to improve the hunt. In fact, significance may vary from site to site or from cairn to cairn. Much remains to be known.