This wall is roughly 3-4 feet tall in some areas.
It's amazing to think about the amount of work that went into digging up, moving and then stacking all these boulders.
There at tens of thousands of miles of these 'walls' built our of necessity not decoration.
For those interested here are a couple links about these walls that criss-cross New England.
It’s folklore that the rocks breed in the winter, because new ones surface every spring. But it’s really just physics, the same way the bits of vegetables come to the surface in a simmering pot of soup. Just a lot slower. The till is many yards deep in some places and it’s filled with rocks. They could build walls forever and never get them all.
ReplyDeleteFirst thought was of the closing scenes of "Shawshank Redemption" with Red scrambling around a rock wall to find a hidden gift. Secondly is the terraced areas surrounding Machu Picchu in Peru. Every rock and follow on fill dirt was humped in by an unimaginable mass of labor. Once that was completed, they were able to build the actual Citadel.
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