The Boxborough Esker (Massachusetts, USA)is considered a significant Native American site in the Hopewellian (indian) tradition.
The esker is a natural geological formation nearly a mile and three quarters long from tip to tail, and more than sixty feet tall. Geologists consider it to have been created by a glacier 15,000 years ago. In any event, it rises out of the Beaver Brook watercourse, a long, high, serpentine shape.
At the bottom of the ramp at Muddy Pond, three earthen circles can be found. They are approximately twenty-two feet across, constructed of a circular ditch, the earth of which has been piled up in the center, making a low mound. A fourth earthen circle is located by the water at the end of the ramp located in the middle portion of the esker.
There are also three prayer seats, or coves, on the flat at the esker’s base at Muddy Pond. The southern prayer cove is an earthen construction made of a shallow u-shaped ditch. It is similar in construction style to the earth circles. The one to the north is adjacent to a stone row and ramp and is the best of the three. This is a small stone cove set in a low earthen mound. It is at the base of the esker, facing the esker. The third one is next to a stone row that runs up the side of the esker. It is similar in construction to the north one, but in poorer condition. It also faces the esker.
Following this row running up the side of the esker there is a six foot break, which picks up again and heads easterly uphill. Just a few feet further in the row, and adjacent to the embrasures, is a construction of three white stones. The large white stone has a flattened top, the egg shaped white stone resting on it. Leaning up against it is a small white Manitou stone on the south side. The north-facing embrasures face an old camp site.
Old bottles and pails can be votive offerings in more recent native American culture. There are some old pails located at the juncture of the stone rows at the base of the esker near the bottom of the ramps. Several more Manitou stones can be also located in and around this part of the esker, as well as a sapling whose trunk had been shaped to have a u-shaped bend to it. Shaping of young trees in this manner is considered to be a native activity and part of marking sacred sites.
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