How old is this stone foundation? Any idea?

[piratemap7]

They used mud for mortar.

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[RTR]

Dunno but its old,2-3 hundred years old ,I'm guessing.Got one here very remote ,someday I'll check it out.Same thing w/no mortar.
One thing ,you can't build it w/o dropping OR leaving ...something behind

 

[bradyboy]

nice stonework
the stones could catch a premium
IM

 

[piratemap7]

Found another one on my way out, about .3 miles away. This area is very remote also. Would love to know what went down here. Thanks for your thoughts.

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[RTR]

can you straighten up the pix.?

 

[piratemap7]

can you straighten up the pix.?

No, I don't see any way to rotate them. Not sure why they uploaded that way because its not the orientation of the photos.

 

[RTR]

No, I don't see any way to rotate them. Not sure why they uploaded that way because its not the orientation of the photos.

Anyhow that one with the V shaped upper portion is interesting

 

[ToddsPoint]

Defensive positions of Civil War soldiers? Those things still exist in many places. Gary

 

[aidennord1]

They used mud for mortar.

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The second image seems so interesting. It catches my attention. Simply Wow.

 

[pepperj]

 

[smokeythecat]

For best dating get a few nails and some ceramic fragments, that will help a lot.

 

[piratemap7]

Defensive positions of Civil War soldiers? Those things still exist in many places. Gary

There are rock walls all around here. About waist high. If not for livestock, they must be defensive in origin, right?

If they are defensive positions, would you say that there's a chance for a cache nearby?

 

[brianc053]

There are rock walls all around here as well. If not for livestock, they must be defensive in origin, right? And why would they have livestock out in the middle of the woods like that? You could be on to something.

If they are defensive positions, would you say that there's a chance for a cache nearby?

Keep in mind that what is woods today was probably not always woods. Many of these sites were clear-cut long ago, and the trees have grown more recently. And from your pictures the trees don't look that thick/large, which aligns with this idea.

Where I live in NJ there are stone walls all over the place in the woods. I'm confident my local walls were to hold in livestock.
And check out this twisted iron fence that these trees have grown around; it gives you a sense for how things change over time. This twisted wire was probably originally attached to some small trees 100+ years ago - trees that are now huge.

EDIT: have you ever used https://www.historicaerials.com/ ? In my area the oldest aerial photos are from 1931, but even those can often show me what was once clear-cut (but now is forest). And the aerials can help you identify old road locations too; roads from the late 1800's that were abandoned still show up in the 1930's as a disturbed/different area of a forest.

 

[whisperer]

So stone walls, natural uncut stone anyway, were generally farm fields, not so much livestock. Of course animals can be contained by taller more structured rock walls, but are pretty handy at climbing over less defined ones.

Rock field walls are a byproduct of clearing the land so it can be plowed. It’s just handy to pick up the rocks and stack them along the edge of the field as a wall.

Ditto on the “out in the woods”. New York City was once just a farm somewhere. There are many other things that those foundations could have been for. People built mills for grain by rivers and creeks, sawmills, etc.. in the east there are places that people built whole towns in the 1600s that were deserted by the 1700s. Research the area.

 

[Jon Stewart]

Did you detect around the structures and from one structure to the other and if so did you find anything?