Calvin, that is the stone base to the central fireplace/ovens and dutch ovens that were on the (absent) floor above. This place is what remains of the "old Hall place" a late 1700's farmstead which had all but disappeared into the earth decades before I was shown the place probably fifty-five years ago when I was about eight. The grown up pasture land surrounding it is laced with scrub apple, thornapple, spruce and pine and is some of the best deer, pa'tridge and woodcock cover I know of.
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