Spent two seasons trying to figure out what a weird stone circle in my field was

On my family's land in rural Vermont, there was this ring of flat stones about 10 feet across. I was convinced it was a colonial foundation or something. Turns out, after talking to a local expert and checking old maps, it was just a 1920s base for a big water tank for cattle. I felt pretty silly, but it was a good lesson in not jumping to conclusions. Has anyone else spent ages on a find that turned out to be way more recent than you thought?

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jana_fox5024d ago

My uncle in Maine had a similar thing, but his was actually a 1950s truck scale pad.

jessicajackson24d ago

Honestly that makes a ton of sense for a truck scale pad. Used to think all those old slabs were just leftover house foundations or something boring. But a scale pad is way thicker and built to last, which explains why they're such a pain to move. Your uncle's story totally changes how I look at those chunks of concrete sitting in fields now.

hunt.quinn16d ago

Yeah, @jessicajackson, it really does change how you see the whole landscape.