Posted on 05/17/2008 11:05:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
More than 300 years ago, someone carried a load of white cobblestones from the river, carefully stacked them on Jan Roeloffsen's property and firmly cemented them into place with dirt... After speculating all winter as to whether the rocks they found were dragged here by a glacier or stacked by human hands, one day of old-school geology and fancy new radar technology appears to have solved the mystery. in fact, New York State Museum archaeologist Julieann Van Nest didn't even need her colleague's radar to determine that the rock formation was probably man-made. if it is, it may be the oldest house foundation ever uncovered in the city's historic Stockade section... If the stones had been carried by a river or a glacier, they would be stacked by size, with the largest dropping out first... "The original soil is missing around the cobblestones," Van Nest said. "We can infer it was taken away, possibly dug up. if you're moving dirt, there's some kind of earth-moving for construction."...Kingsley thinks that post was part of the original building on the site, which was burned in 1690 during a raid by the French and Native Americans... "They may represent piles of cobbles that were supports for the sills of a building," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailygazette.com ...
Andy Kozlowski, a research scientist for the state Department of Environmental Conservation, uses radar to scan an area at the Yates House on Union Street in Schenectady on Friday morning. Kozlowski and others are looking to see whether a mysterious pile of cobblestones found five feet below the surface is manmade. [Photographer: Marc Schultz]
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This obviously is additional proof of the Masonic-Indian connection.
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