Scottish Walls

On one of my annual climbing trips to the highlands I spotted these two examples:-

 The wall above is in the forest at Aviemore.  Typically it has a slightly overhanging cope.

This one is a relatively new wall at the western end of Aviemore.  The stone is mostly Granite with copes and throughs of another blacker rock which I think is schist and is quite slabby, so it'd make better throughs than the granite.

Extreme Hedgelaying

 The hedge I'd been laying now covered in a foot or so of snow.  But I wasn't going to give up.

 Back to the car for the shovel.

A little bit of digging and we're able to start.  But then I got sensible and went home.

Howdale (2)

A long wall for me, 260 meters  and I've still another 60 to do. Howdale moor on the right and Howdale Farm on the left.  The wall is built on a slight ridge and has a deep ditch running alongside making the rebuild somewhat tricky.

North Dale

North Dale which runs into Rosedale on the NYM contains this little gem.  Something I've not seen before together.  An old gate entrance blocked up and a sheep creep built into it. The sheep creep isn't used any more now and just off picture there is a nice set of stone steps over the wall, no doubt put in when the gate was blocked off.

Commondale

Between Commondale & Kildale on the south side of the road at 634099 is an unusual wall, at least on the NYM. It's single width and unusually has a neat row of copes. But what is more remarkable is the care to ensure that the tops of the copes are level. To achieve this the builder /s have altered the hight of the wall to make sure that each cope ends at the right hight rather than finish the wall level and make sure the copes match!  More recently I've discovered another wall with much larger cope stones at New House Farm, Westerdale.  Look here Westerdale

The Yorkshire Dales

No picture of anything to do with stone in the northern dales would be complete without a barn. Sometimes every field has one. Virtually all of them now have no use for farming. Once used for housing stock and hay in winter these have been replaced by better stock housing in the main farm and baled silage. This one near Muker in upper Swaledale.

The throughstones are tilted downwards so that water runs off the building.

This tiny little bridge is on a path between Muker & Thwaite.

Near Usha Gap between these two villages is one of only two of these I've ever seen. They indicate change of ownership and are two wall heads butted up together.

Typical Dales wall, random rubble, but this one makes use of Gritstone to construct the corner.  The limestone which the rest of the wall is built from is less suitable for corners because its smaller and won't make strong corners.

Mainly limestone but notice the thicker courses in the middle of the wall and also notice the darker brown stone (throughs) which are gritstone which occurs nearbye

This is the same wall as above.  Very neat work.

 (Wood Nook Farm) near Grassington.

Typical Dales wall, Limestone rubble.

The bulge -Sunnyside farm, Fylingthorpe.

Alarming bulge and over a private road entrance & public footpath.

The stick was holding it up!!!

And after about a day and a half - here's the result

Pleased with this.