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BlueGloves

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Dew Ponds

Feb 03, 2003, 08:00

I see them but only have more questions.

If you have a pond which is watering stock, every so often you'll clean the sludge out (and it's a rich fertiliser). The only sure way to 'date' a pond is to look at the layers of deposited gunge - like tree rings - and to count backwards. Siltochronology.

If a pond were lined with stones that would be an excellent protection against those stones being reused elsewhere - in a later wall, for instance. The Stonehenge roundabout has lasted so long and there's no intrinsic reason why a pond shouldn't have lasted that long also. Maps give some small clues - if a pond is between two fields then it is probably older than that field division, for instance. The round shape is also a bit of a giveaway.

A pond at the foot of a sacred hill is probably - - - very old (and I'd better go and photograph it).

david

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Dew Ponds? – Zos, Feb 02, 2003, 14:27


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