Native american trail marker trees

[NC field hunter]

I have been reading as much info as I can find on native trail marker trees. I think I have one practically in my back yard. This tree was played in by my great grandmother and my grandmother, I know. I can't trace it's existence any further back. My great grandmother passed in 1989 at 98 years. If any of you guys have pics of known trail markers, please show them. Also, give me some input. Is this a trail marker or just an odd old tree?



















Thanks

 

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[bmartin0693]

Im going out on a limb here . But id have to say you and NC are buddies? Maybe neighbors, maybe relatives?

Rock, you can play in my treehouse, if your nice! Ah, someone must be jealous. Do you wanna come over to hunt for artifacts too? I think you want to move up here to start a new NC Rock & Artifact Collection. Don't you enjoy seeing what all we find here in NC? Come on in, the water is refreshing! You won't never know until you try it!

 

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[NC field hunter]

Im going out on a limb here . But id have to say you and NC are buddies? Maybe neighbors, maybe relatives?

He's my twin brother. Don't tell anyone.

 

[NC field hunter]

Pilot mt. Is a cool looking mt. Can you still go up on the tip of the mt.? You live about 2hours from me. I used to go by pilot every other week making the TN. Run. Mid Mt. Foods in Abington VA. Actually.

 

[bmartin0693]

Not anymore. There has been quite a few rock climbers and actual visitors that died trying to climb unsafely. My dad said when he was a lil boy, Surry County used to set off fireworks from the knob, for the 4th of July. I bet that could be seen from a 30 mile radius around.

 

[NC field hunter]

Not anymore. There has been quite a few rock climbers and actual visitors that died trying to climb unsafely. My dad said when he was a lil boy, Surry County used to set off fireworks from the knob, for the 4th of July. I bet that could be seen from a 30 mile radius around.

What is that knob? Natures mystery?

 

[bmartin0693]

I think it is a meta-sandstone/quartzite type rock. Schist layers within it too. Over millions of years of erosion left a knob shape b/c that stone is very resistant to weathering. There is many folds, bands, foliations and layers of it. Those layers can be thick and thin. It is actual beach sands that changed (metamorphosized) by heat and pressure. The cliffs used to be as white beach sands along the shore of an ancient ocean more like 500 million years ago. The quartzite found along this mountain range is known for it's purity, 98% quartz. The folds in the knob provides evidence that there was collisions of continental plates when the Appalachian Mtns were formed. Hanging Rock was made the same way. Pilot, Sauratown and Hanging Rock are all part of an ancient mountain range named after the Saura Indians. All having a nice "birds eye" view of the Piedmont below.