Drystone wall in Pispala

Emma's team had another rehearsal match today, this time against one year older Pyrintö's B-girls. C-girls lost 51 - 59. The match was in Varala and nearby there is very modest looking ancient monument.

The drystone wall was built in the early 20th century as relief work to designate the village boundary laid down in the distribution of land in 1758. Running SW–NE, the borderline was originally about one kilometre in length, running across the Pispalanharju ridge following the boundary between the village of Pispala and the manor of Tammerkoski laid down in the early 18th or even late 17th century. Originally the wall had two openings for gates.

The wall lost its function in 1937 when Pispala was annexed to the town of Tampere. Subsequent construction and other land-use activities have destroyed much of the wall. In a survey conducted in 2008, it was observed that parts of the wall had survived in an 0.8-km stretch in 10 different places, with a total of about 100 m of the wall surviving. The extant parts are between 5 and 45 m in length, and the condition and degree of preservation of the structures vary.

Originally the wall was piled from fairly large round stones, and had later been complemented with smaller stones. The best-preserved parts have 3–5 stone layers, and the average width of the wall is 1–1.5 m and height 0.5–1.5 m.


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