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@00 Year Old Wall
by budzbunny
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15 years ago
This is a 200 year old slave-built stone wall on a farm about a mile from my farm in Alexandria, Tennessee. With our modern equipment, techniques, and materials, we STILL can't duplicate this kind of Craftmanship Exactly..I know, I've tried.
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Fluffydoom
~fluffydoom
Tell me about it, I had to do some dry stone walling at my mum's barn in Wales. It takes time, but if you get it right and choose the right rocks - nothing can bring it down!
budzbunny
~budzbunny
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I'm in the U.S. in Tennessee, but we are at least as rocky as Wales. My sister lives in Rye, U.K. and my son-in-law is from Falkirk, Scotland. One of my best friends is in Wales. Wales provided the stones for aStonehenge, I believe.
Fluffydoom
~fluffydoom
Awesome! When I graduate from university i plan on touring the US giong from national park to national park. Specifically want to visit the Smoky Mountains amongst many others...
budzbunny
~budzbunny
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I'm 200 miles (320 km.) west of the Smokies on the edge of what is called the Highland Rim (not the Scottish Highlands). It is an area of Limestone beds, full of fossils, chert, and flint, and LOADED with caves, natural pits, sinkholes, and disappearing creeks. there are 150 - 200 KNOWN caves in my county alone. And the county is barely explored when it comes to caving. (I've been a caver since I was 15.) I found and reported 20 of those caves myself. Surprisingly, I have never really checked our farm for caves, but I suspect I kind find at least ONE there. You must come see me!
Scurrow
~scurrow
Wow! What did they use to hold the rocks together back then?
budzbunny
~budzbunny
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They hand fitted each stone to blend almost perfectly with the others. You find bits of rubble along the walls where they chiseled and shaped each stone!
budzbunny
~budzbunny
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There was NO mortar used, just tight fitted adjusted with smaller stone and then the next stone done the same way!
Scurrow
~scurrow
Wow, that's pretty amazing actually. There's a similar stone wall in Pennsylvania near my gf, i'll have to take a better look at it next time and see if it's done the same way.
budzbunny
~budzbunny
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Pennsylvania has a lot of stone walls that are probably the same way. This same technique can be seen in England.
