Hallamdrystonewalls captions his photo: “Building a dry stone done for a bit of
Christmas fun. Santa loves dry stone domes ya know.”
"My little dry stone mound on the isle of mull, Scotland. Not
bad for a first attempt especially as the stone was awful."
Above: Obviously an
English stone wall also made by Isaac Hallam, a Derbyshire based dry stone
waller. Below: 5 miles from my house,
around the estate of the first Puritan minister, is this wall that most
people would say was obviously made by people of English descent because "Indians
(in New England) didn't build stone walls until the English taught them
to."
Another segment at the Preacher's Estate, undulating obviously snake-like and quite obviously unlike an obviously English stone wall:
UK photos from: https://www.instagram.com/hallamdrystonewalls/
I notice that what we think of as "Indian" walls are built in diagonal layers. The British example is in horizontal layers.
ReplyDeleteNotice the stake in the center of the "dome" - probably had a string attached to "keep it regular" and circular, wrapping around the stake to guide the taper to the top.
ReplyDeleteAnd "awful stones are those that can't easily be worked into "bricks and blocks."
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