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| no partners | | Here are some drone shots of the main Cline Creek area "fort", to add to all the previous photos and interesting comments.
I'm beginning to suspect that these super-thick walled forts, which appear sporadically over a huge area, were meant as refuges for the nearby settlements, which unlike the forts on the Agua Fria plateau, were unprotected by cliffs or thick walls. It's also clear that it's intended to communicate with the similar fort on Elephant Mountain to the east.
In fact, there's a line-of-sight connection between the big fort on the south end of Black Mesa, to this fort via the "Pepsi cap" fort and the "Alpha fort" just to the north. That meant a signal could go between Elephant mountain to the Black Mesa fort up on the Agua Fria plateau over 20 miles away almost immediately.
There's also a direct line of sight connection with the Dutch Mesa fort, about 15 miles to the east.
I can't personally find any connection to the east with the Elephant Mountain fort –anybody know of one? |
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