Re: Out standing in {his/our?} field

From: ian_hammond_cooper_at_...
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 11:14:45 -0000

Stephen wrote:
>In hilly regions of England dry stone walls are very common, so there
must be enough rocks available to make them. ("Dry stone" = no mortar is used, the rocks are simply fitted together. It's quite a skilled craft) . These are normally found on moorland and hills (sheep-farming country); in more sheltered and fertile regions hedges are easier.<

Some of these walls are OLD, archeologists loking at the style date some of them back to the middle ages or even earlier (of course they need rebuilding every so often). In Gloranthan terms such a wall is probably part of the sacred space created when the tula was laid out and intimately connected with earth rituals such as walking the boundaries.

Ian Cooper