Well, yesterday I visited the Native American ring within a ring site since the weather had cleared up from the 3 days of rain we had. this time I had brought my pocket drone to get a physical aerial image, a birds eye of what I was walking on & holy wow! fascinating!
Look how plentiful they are, on nearly 2-3000 acres of 95% untouched state land!
this is the one I was able to stumble across a few days prior and figured a drone view would be the ticket to make some real sense of it but had been waiting on the weather to participate.
drone video footage I filmed circling it. never video shot with the drone before so excuse my lack of control
This visit I was more prepared for exploring with the 3dep maps on a particular application on my phone which allowed me to pinpoint myself with the gps rather than comparing a map online and referencing where I was on google maps aerial imagery. this software saved me tons of time and I was literally able to walk straight from one to another rather than walking in circles and guessing.
All in all, I managed to visit 7 circular rings and 3 small single rings before I had to head back to the jeep in the darkness. theres so many more to explore. last night though in order for me to access these I had to cross a marshy swamp. reminded me of a peat bog, lots of grass mounds to walk on but 1 misplacement of your foot and your going waist deep in muck.
I did happen to notice many of them had open center rings within the mound of dirt but a few had had haphazardly placed piles of dirt within. some were in excellent shape and others time and wear have wore them down a little. even though there was wear though they clearly stood out from the surrounding terrain.
like before most of my walking from one ring to another crossed a fairly clear opening through the woods that had no real direct line it was going it was fairly twisty. generally though I was walking through the brush on the left and right sides of the frame.
an example of one of the centers of the ring formations buried out deep in the woods in the center bottom of the frame, the outside ring was too big to get in the picture.
another center ring (the trees in the center of the frame are basically growing on the high point of the top of the mounded dirts ridge) this one was in rougher shape than the others.
an unusual straight shaped mound of dirt which was about 40' long in length. this one runs from the bottom left of the frame to the top right.
a purple mushroom I found walking. lots of strange colored mushrooms out here.
Ive been talking with my dad about this since I happened to stumble across this on this past Sunday. hes looking to get out there in person too to make a observation. its so difficult to understand how large these are without being there. ive always wanted to see something like this in the wild but have never lucked out until now. everything in general everywhere else has been lost to time and destroyed by farming.