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Ancrum curved wall continued

26/8/2019

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.

And it seems they got on pretty rapidly without me on the Sunday, with the throughs going on by mid-morning.

And even some of the copes on before lunch.

By early afternoon just the remaining copes needed finished off.

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..

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..

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.

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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Ancrum curved wall continued

Curved wall at Ancrum

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