which is why my hunch is this structure dates from the late 1700’s (post Rev) or very early 1800’s, when settlers were moving into Ohio and were still vulnerable to attacks into the 1790’s (or later into the 1800’s? Ohio historians?)
someone was settled on this land enough to build a stone structure -
just wonder if they have investigated whether the stone is encasing or replaced an older log structure, as has been suggested occurred with some of the original log blockhouses in pre-Rev war PA that are contained within later built homes
That is where they found my ancestor Lochry’s 1774 blockhouse- within a farmhouse built over it
http://www.archaeology.org/online/news/blockhouse.html
The gun slot tips me off, and the small size of it.