Well, I started on this section of wall on 11th November and have spent 10 working days on it to get to this point. Christmas, bad weather and the flu all contributed to slowing things up. You can start to understand how labour intensive dry stone walling is – particularly compared to putting up a barbed wire fence.
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| Dry stone walling – Day 16 |
Both sides to the wall are faced in the same way – the only difference is that the other side of the wall is around 5 courses higher due to the difference in the field levels.
There are a number of imperfections in the wall. Let’s face it, the whole process of building the wall is one of managing imperfection. Having said that the coping stones on the far left of the wall need to come off and the last course on top of the wall needs to be levelled up before they are re-sited. I think this is more obvious if you zoom in on the above image (by clicking on it) and taking a look at the far left end of the wall – it seems to starting reducing in height. I have actually fixed this issue now and you will see this in later photographs of this part of the wall.