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Ancrum curved wall continued

26/8/2019

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I now have some photos from the second day of the build, and some from before I arrived on the first day - many thanks to Karl and Chris for these (see previous post for the bit in between!).

​This is the site at the start of the build - we'd been provided with a curved base of whin (I think) rubble to build on, but it took quite a bit of measuring to get the poles and lines in place.
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And it seems they got on pretty rapidly without me on the Sunday, with the throughs going on by mid-morning.
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And even some of the copes on before lunch.
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By early afternoon just the remaining copes needed finished off.
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And by mid afternoon the wall was complete.
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Curved wall at Ancrum

24/8/2019

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This weekend we're building a curved stone wall at Woodside near Acrum in the Scottish Borders, to provide a sheltered and meditative spot in one corner of the community garden - and a very nice spot it is, too, not far from the pond and shelter beyond..
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I wasn't able to get there until lunchtime, by which the site had been prepared and the cheek-ends started. It's a bit hard to get a good shot of the site as it's enclosed by trees and bushes..
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We had seven wallers in total - eight if you include my son, Sam, who helped out as a "hearting monkey", filling the gaps between the two side of the walls with smaller stones.The was pretty much the ideal number- if we'd had any more it would've been hard to fit us all into the site.

By close of play today, we'd got the first three courses or so up, and I very much expect that tomorrow they (sadly I can't make it along myself) will get it completed.
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Hopefully someone else will take some further photos tomorrow - if I can get some I'll post them here as well.
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