Red Quartz in Stone Wall

There is a long stretch of wall, which has purposeful designs featuring fairly large pieces of quartz...it would take a half-bushel basket to hold this red one.

Stone wall art

Exploring the back side of a stone wall. It begins here, at the edge of a swampy area and extends over 400 feet. .

This boulder is as large as a  Volkswagon Bug automobile. I was surprised by the row of holes drilled along its length. 

Symmetrical design in the wall. 

Quartz tucked in a niche. 

Quartz

A Unique Stone Pile

Where a stone wall might normally be located,  along a gravel road, there was  instead, a series of "stand alone" rock piles, spaced in a line, about 10 feet apart. My first thought was that the wall builder had planned to go back and fill in the spaces between each of the piles, but upon a closer look, each pile was unique and complete in itself.   The one shown here is especially interesting. The flat stone on the left must have been carried from a rock outcrop located about 1/4 of a mile to the east. Small white stones are SET  under the flat stone, and a large loaf like stone is PLACED  on top,  providing  visual balance to the remainder of the construction.  The round rocks climbing up the "back" on the right are not fitted together, but arranged so that they touch one another on  as small a surface as possible, yet remain stable.