Dry Stone Walling....

It's th last day of Dig The City today. Tomorrow it all gets cleared away and packed up for another year. It's been fun being a little part of it.

It was fascinating watching the rangers from Lyme Park build a dry stone wall. Apparently there are three walls. Two outer ones that slope inwards, carefully arranged to provide this smooth outer face. The third wall is the inner wall which looks like rubble but is, in fact, a carefully constructed wall of tiny prices slotted together to infill. Carefully carved coping stones top the wall.

It's a slow business building these walls and it took 3 guys to do this in the good conditions in St. Ann's Square so imagine how long it would take on a steep, windswept hillside in Yorkshire or the like. Having got it up though, it'll be there for the next 200 years...