Today we went back to Cubbiedean* to work once again with the Friends of the Pentlands (or in this case, Friend of the Pentlands, as only Hamish could make it) to continue closing the gateway and repairing the walls around it (see previous post for details of the start of the job). No prizes for guessing if I remembered to take a 'before' picture this time, but this is the state of affairs after we'd been at it for a hour or so.
* From looking at the map the site is really half way between Bonaly and Torduff, but as I've started calling it Cubbiedean in previous posts, and as Cubbiedean is just around the corner, I'll just continue with this.
* From looking at the map the site is really half way between Bonaly and Torduff, but as I've started calling it Cubbiedean in previous posts, and as Cubbiedean is just around the corner, I'll just continue with this.
We had several new wallers with us today, but they'd all been well taught (as you'd expect, having been on one of our courses) and work progressed apace - by lunchtime we'd got up for enough for to get one of two 'muckle stanes' we'd earmarked for the corner in place:
by about two o'clock we'd got some of the copes on and were nearly ready for the rest of them:
and by three we'd got the other muckle stane on:
and, indeed, finished the rest of the wall.
Well ... almost. We could've got it completed, but for the fact that we were short of a couple of meter's worth of cope stones. But not to worry, there should be no problem to get some delivered to the site, and it shouldn't take long to put them in place.
And I think the completed badger lunkey deserves a mention, though it's maybe a bit small for most badgers ... hedgehog lunkey, perhaps?
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