I spent some time bushwacking through US-4702 Gilbert Hills yesterday. There are some really interesting stone features in the park, including a dolmen (a large flat table-like rock supported on multiple legs) and aligned boulders. The area was in use by indigenous groups long before colonists arrived.
The park is just a few miles from me, and I spend a lot of time in it, not just for POTA. Yesterday I decided to go over and take a look at the 19-century granite quarry on the west side. From there I just started wandering, and ran across a standing stone, one of those pictured.
Several stone features in Gilbert Hills are published, and I knew from those papers that there were two stones in the park, but this one didn’t look like either of them. I’ll tell the full story in an article on PN&R, but the short version is that I ended up finding seven stones in all, the two published ones and five others, and confirmed that they form a true east-west line.
There’s a lot more to the stones that I’ll leave for the article, including my interpretation of the site, but here are the seven, plus a nearby boulder that I believe was the source of one stone. You can see at the top where the stone was crudely chiseled and then pried away.
