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wideford
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Re: "standing stone fences"
Jun 04, 2004, 10:44
According to the Collin's Field Guide drystane dyking starts only in the Early Iron Age and asserts that they only really took off after 1710 in Scotland. It also says that before this date there were very few drystane walls in Britain and then only for larger village fields. The one across the Loch of Messigate in Orkney is below water and so pre-mediaval at least. All of which does not address the question of "standing stone fences". The only theory I have found is that they are the result of field clearances, which doesn't seem credible for the majority.
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