Oley Hills site
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The Oley Hills site, or Oley Hills stone work site, located in Berks County, Pennsylvania, is an enigmatic complex of snaking dry stone walls, carefully shaped rock piles or cairns, perched boulders, and unusually shaped natural boulders. It is possible to see animal and human forms in some of the rock piles and boulders, but whether those images were intended by the builders or are phenomena of the imaginations of modern observers cannot be proven. The site boasts other features such as an enormous "split-wedged boulder," a split boulder with another stone wedged into the split.
Just when the complex was built and who built it is not certain. The complex is large and elaborate, as shown by the work of Prof. Norman Muller of Princeton University,[1] and thus unlikely to have been a simple field clearing operation. Other theories of the site's origins, including various kinds of Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact, have been put forward. It may be an example of the ceremonial stone landscapes described by USET, United Southern and Eastern Tribes, Inc.[2] in their resolution on the topic.[3] As interest in stone sites of the east increases, the Oley Hills site, because of its huge size and extraordinary features, is likely to be closely examined and researched.
