Farms: Mysterious West Virginia rock cairns Native American ritual site?

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1. from what i understand west virginia and the appalachian and its rivers were full of old indian tribes and others migrated from the mississippi and perhaps mexico & south america and/or other directions. these areas where used for battles once the spanish french english came to conquer the americas, before that the tribes ruled these lands many an ancient people were slain. recently it's been shown the west virginian and appalachian are more ancient than were ever thought to be. a lot of history in these hills, mountains and valleys. I grown up seeing many rock caves stone walls stone circles what I was always told were indian burial grounds and sacred places.
2. are you not also a civilian?
3. I've seen those on a lot of old pasture fields. An old man to me it's where the cleaned up the pasture and hay fields years ago. Makes sense rather than carry or pull them with a mule or something to one big pile to make several little ones.
4. They are the oldest temples in the world we know. How old is that dead tree at 2:35? At least 400? 500/More? How old is that tree? It predates most of WV history. These Rock Heaps have been dated to 8000?10,000 plus some even more. If you would like to see many more of these PM me.
5. So what's been learned about this since '09?
6. A lot of those rocks appear to be located on a bench, which was likely used to farm at one time or another.A friend took me to a farm in the eastern part of WV where the main field was surrounded by huge stone piles. He claimed that back in the day, the landowner who was fairly wealthy would hire the locals to clear the field of rocks and they piled them all around the periphery of the field.
7. LOL ! What do you think people did with rocks when they cleared land to build houses,buildings,animal pins ,plant food an keep from triping over them especially on hill sides where it is more rocky ? Do you think they ate them ? LOLOLOLOL Rocks piles were also use for land markers and fence. The key word in this story may be FARM ! How do I know this ? My great grand parents lived up a long hollow on top of montcoal mountain that butts up into bolt ,(lindytown ,west fork of pondfork) along with others that had farms .Ive see rock piles,rock walls,markers,fire places,rock lined surface water wells, fence an rock buildings over water springs to keep milk an other things from spoiling.Theres 3 grave yards on that mountain john "lewis jarrell" ,bailey an asbury.My grand parents built rock walls,rock lined water well an had rock piles down in the hollow,the only thing left of my grand parents house is the fire place built from hand hued large rocks an clay.My grand mother,her sisters an brothers lived on top of montcoal as children.My grand mothers sister nancy jarrell-richmond-mccan received a wv.award a few years ago before she passed away at 108 .Arrow heads have been found all over the mountains in this area.Maybe native americans did build some of the things in the woods,who knows...............
8. My advice is before you go digging up native cultural sites you get in touch with the communities in your area so you could have a respectful discussion. They know, you know.
9. Any carvings on nearby stones or trees? Check for a marker on a nearby stone ground. Also, does the sun rise or set from the hill?
10. I live in the Appalachian mountains in Kentucky I run across the these formations all the time . from my understanding native Americans used these mountains as hunting grounds . i can show you hundreds of rock formations I would like to get as much information as possible these places should be documented and protected. from my research these mountains have the highest concentration of rock formations I know of
11. A good friend of mine told me orchards were once  planted all over the mountain sides .I also wonder if they could be graves .If you bury a cat 2 feet in the ground another animal will smell it and dig it up .but if you put rocks on it it is less likely the soil  will be turned .I bet it was difficult to dig such a rocky mountain side .Apparently this phenomenon of piled rocks exists in virginia  as well. I am guessing many who were here did not fare well for long with all the wars land disputes diseases etc .there once were a lot of indians here where are their remains ?
12. The moved them for cattle crossing 
13. Maybe civil war soldiers built them to use as barricade from enemy gun fire, just a guess.
14. I've found these in Logan County, always wondered what it was. Thanks for sharing
15. not celts, this is a native american memorial....after wars a rock was place for each life lost...Cherokee and Siouans had numerous wars in that area. 
16. This is pretty cool. I know of a place way off the beaten path where there is a perfectly carved life size face of an Indian man carved into the side of a rock. I have no idea who put it there or how old it is but it was crafted with extreme skill and precision, regardless of the time it was carved. But it does look old, and it was a really cool random discovery out in the middle of nowhere about 100 yards away from an old dirt backroad. 
17. Interesting. I had not heard that about the Shenandoah. Do you have a source for that tale? Would love to track it down.
18. Thank you for sharing. Great site to research into and bring out the mystery of its past. Glad you are keeping the location site private. Any updates on its story? Please let me know. :)
19. BTW, the site is located on a steep hillside, one that was most likely not used for growing things. So, the burial site or memorial locale makes sense as it is a hike to get to and on an angled protected hill.
20. Uh, not that scary. Quite wonderful, in fact (if you can get over the awful politics) and certainly one of the coolest woodlands in America, this Native American site just one of many in its rich hills.