Found on a creek bed. Was it built for the creek or before the creek was there. I have dug about a foot down will dig more when I get some time. What do you think it was.

The thing that I've seen like that before was a furnace for a moonshine still.
But that's usually very close to running water to supply the condenser

Dried up seep spring would be my guess.

Where is this? Has some similarities to old burial cairns.

You guys that live in outcrop areas in older formations are lucky. So much geology there. I'd be a digging madman.

Central Texas between Eddy and Moody.

I have one similar to that going across a creek. I just figured it was an old man made dam.

“ The two men identified stone-covered burials in three general topographic locales: 1) within terrace deposits along watercourses; 2) within sandy post oak and mesquite belts; and, 3) perhaps most frequently, along high ridgelines and bluffs overlooking tributaries of the Brazos River. Sand dune and terrace burials frequently were found within or near extensive campsites containing hearths, tools, quantities of freshwater mussel shell, and other materials, while the high burials typically lay amid scatters of stone chipping debris and near chert outcrops.”

Might require some extensive intrusion to verify a site. It may be something all together different. I would try to study and learn a lot more about this before I would go ripping into a possible burial site.

Still sight would be my guess…