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StoneGloves
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Sea burial
Jan 25, 2011, 17:12
Now, not a lot of people know this.

When you have a stone wall going up a hill - (The hillside makes the explanation a little bit easier) - a channel usually forms in the foundation, which runs away the water that falls onto the wall. (And in the hills that can be a lot of rain). As the stones in the wall become frozen and melt again, through the winters, tiny bits flake off and fall to the base of the wall and are then washed away in the foundation gully. So walls are just turning into sand and being washed away, all the time. When you come to repair a wall you need to bring in stones to replace those that washed away as sand. Some parts of my walls are now in the North Sea!

Skara Brae could be easily reproduced by a skilled drystone waller. (This description excludes Goldsworthy, who is a moron). The difficulty would be in deskilling somewhat, so as to incorporate the blatant mistakes that the Bronze Age builders made.
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