Sundial...thanks for sharing an interesting story...Merry Christmas to all...🥰🥰

what a great piece of history! it looks like a sun dial you need to go back at different times and see the marks line up with the other rocks! it is so nice to find prices of the past like that . a nice variation doing a history hike.

Merry Christmas Brandon and family 🎄🎁☃️......🙏>>>💚~~~ looks like a sundial to me 👍 Thank You for sharing..

What an awesome day Brandon. Any time us grown folks get to spend the day with family, its a true blessing. Thank you for sharing such a great day with all of us. Awesome video and great adventure and as always thanks for taking us alog

Looks like a sun dial to me. I love these casual walks, I get to see sights I otherwise wouldn't. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

The 1st pile of rocks you came across was the leftovers of an old homeplace's flat stone chimney...they are all over most of the flat groujds where a creek or freshwater runs through nearby...the small circle with the stone in the center was either a pets grave or a young childs grave as we didn't jave many drs here 120 years ago so alot more mothers/babies had problems or being still born...if you would have dusted the leaves back from yhe flat stone in the center then it most like would have have faint carvings in it somewhere telling a name and year born/died...if i knew exactly which area you were visiting i could definitely get you more information. I live here on 321 about 5 miles from Gatlinburg but have close ties to everyone close by :)

Sundial...thanks for sharing the story..Merry Christmas to all...🥰🥰

That does look like a sundial, probably attributed to the early settlers. Merry Christmas, Brandon and family!🎄❤️

Could be a sundial! Looks like an early settlement. The rock piles could just be from clearing grow fields. But you never know!

Lots of this out there.. I know of a few spots that give me such weird feelings

Great family adventure.

So cool. God bless you & your family! Thxs for sharing. Merry Christmas!

Sundial ... a very early one at that! Thanks for sharing! Can't beat a good stomp in the woods with family! You know there is a hutch right under that center stone! 😁

Great find! Merry Christmas and a happy New Year🎉

I live at the foot of the GSMNP in Sevier County. There are many home sites with rock walls, but there are many walls and living quarters from the CCC camps as well.

@Sophies09Mommy

6 ай бұрын

Truth! My husb grandfather & great uncle worked in the ccc. My MIL & fam are from Maryville & are related to the walker sisters. Husband maternal grandmother was a walker. & thru their in laws we also have Cherokee nation relatives- why I commented on their ppl living here at least “200 years” and I said try THOUSANDS of years! One of the NDN cousins from there is kinda infamous for hiking the whole Appalachian trail many times. Family always had the family reunion every summer in the huge campsites in Cades cove. Sure do miss East Tennessee & the GSMNP 😢.

Fun video. Thanks for sharing your families ramble in the woods with us. Looks like a sundial 🌞🎄Merry Christmas to you and yours. Happy new year 🎊

That is super cool!!! Thanks for bringing us along.

merry christmas to you and your family!

I'd have to agree with the Sundial theory. Glad you guys had fun out there. Merry Christmas! 😀

Very interesting!

Thanks for sharing 👍🤓👍

Sun dial from early settlers

Very unique to find in the woods. It’s probably not going to be as old as you think. The rocks should have more dirt and sediment built up and covering them. I’m guessing that might be 40-50 years old or less. Still something great to see!

Merry Christmas to y'all and have a safe and healthy and happy new year. Yes that was definitely man made, how great you are to return it's natural statice to preserve it for future folks to discover.

Cool little video, real mysterious, thanks for sharing!

Thank you!😮

Very cool!!!😎

Cool find.

Nice video.

Great video! Merry Christmas to you and your family!

It definitely looks like a sundial. Maybe ask the park rangers for permission to metal detect the area around the two rock piles. Old iron, nails, etc would let you know if it was a home site. Hope you and the family had a great Christmas.

Very interesting and so cool! I'd say sundial too.

Would be interesting to dig and sift around the sight to see if flint flakes are around

@adventurearchaeology

6 ай бұрын

If it wasn’t a national park I’d be all over it haha!

Very kool, for sure.

Interesting spot!

That is a very cool find whatever it is.

That's pretty cool 😎👍!!! Hope y'all had a great Christmas 🎄!!!!!

Very cool , I agree must be a early settler moving through valley . Or a stop over for a few years . And the had managed a way to fashion a sun dial . Very interesting area . Should be something in the census about who was in the area and dates . Thanks for sharing

Cool video!

That’s really cool!!!

Merry Christmas Adventure Archaeology family!! 🎅🤶🎄

Thank you for taking us along to this awesome place! I believe it's a sundial. Very cool! Happy New year 🎊. Hope you had a great Christmas 🎁

Merry Christmas to you and your family!

very kool

First time I've seen your whole family on an outing!!

Safe and happy holidays.😊

Merry Christmas ❤

I believe that is from the early settlers an it's a sun dial

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

Up here in Pennsylvania there are places like that in the state gamelands. The Game Commission has literature that says these were constructed by the CCC as rabbit warns. So possiblythis is something similar. I can’t imagine a sundial would work with the shade from the trees.

I agree, it looks like a sundial

I live in East Tennessee I have 3 rock piles on my property in the woods from old home places gardens

Why not? The pointed central rock is interesting. I see one fellow suggests a grave which is also feasible, depending on how close to an abode it would be...

How cold does it get thistime of year in TN?

@adventurearchaeology

6 ай бұрын

All depends! Teens to 80s haha

Watch out for the bears

It's a Old Old Timex.

Such a sick find I found something similar up near the Canadian boarder that's where I'ma from I have moved sence then but it on my grandparents land in northern New Hampshire so the 1 on my grandparents land was looked at by a history expert and she estamated that it was Indians from Canada from around late15 to 1600s so we left it alone Don't know if u know this or not but rock piles stacked facing east next to trees are usually an Indian geave

Looks like a established land corner there all over the country here in Mo where i live have them on my property usually have number and range cut in the stone look close you can see there on quarter and mile section line i may be wrong but looks like that's what it is

Did you check the center for ash ruling out that it may be a fire ring?

I think it is a sundial!!!!!

Looks like a old moonshine still site

Merry Christmas to you and your family. I would definitely say that is a sun dial, and most likely by early settlers. I don’t think the Native American people really used conventional time like we do today.

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Compass and clock

@MathiasVIKING0403

6 ай бұрын

Count the stones in OUTER circle and see if there's 12?

@MathiasVIKING0403

6 ай бұрын

Same technique as using a wrist watch nowadays to navigate! This is the original form

Most likely a sun dial, but could also be a grave, most likely for a baby.

I’ll tell you who built it! It was that damn Sasquatch!

Why don't you try to build one like that at you house?

So, it's an early sundial made from rocks. Nothing really that special.

@adventurearchaeology

6 ай бұрын

How many have you found?

Cool! Obviously the 'sun dial' is man-made, as is the rock wall -- and the piles of rocks. I did not see any true 'old growth' trees (over 100 yr old) in that area, so the area easily could have been cleared, settled and farmed 100+ years ago, and the piles of rocks could just be rocks cleared from the land for agriculture. But fascinating.

Looks like just off the blue ridge parkway to me

Dig a little to see if you find ashes. Looks like it could be a fire ring? If you do not find ashes, I'll go with some kind of sundial.

These rocks haven’t been moved in a long time. Moves rock.

Lived here for over 200 years? lol try THOUSANDS of years . Smh

@adventurearchaeology

6 ай бұрын

Just the settlers not the natives.

wishing you all a late Merry Christmas as I just returned from FL and Cherokee NC. Have Avery Happy New Year