Old Stone Walls Corydon, Indiana, United States
By The Winningham Boys on 19-Dec-02. Waypoint GCB676

Have been meaning to get photos of this wall for ages!
It is located on the northern outskirts of Oatlands in Tasmania, Australia just down the road from my Teddy Bears Revenge cache.
Someone has logged the wall at the southern end of Oatlands, but I think this wall is better. Behind the wall are the gardens for an old house, the gardens are still maintained and the house lived in.
Thanks. TeamSwampy(-AR)

This old stone wall is on the Midland Highway on the way into Buninyong, Victoria.
It has seen better days, but usually all this excess groth dies off over summer

Stumbled across this while while hiking in Kettletown State Park, CT. Spent 2 days in this park doing 6 caches and an earthcache. When I saw this wall, I remembered about this locationless cache, and snapped a picture.

Geo Frog

This wall is part of the ruins of "Burg Vlotho".

Happy hunting from Jack Russel Team

This wall is in Fairmout Park in Philadelphia Pa, near an old homestead and mill. The wall is made fron stacked pieces of Wissahickon Schist a geological oddity only found in this area. The wall is 40ft long and 10ft high.

Stonewall in Claycomo, Mo.

Found just outside Gisborne, Victoria, Australia

This dry stone wall is quite high up in the mountains near Collinsvale, Tasmania, and would need to be able to endure temperature ranges between -5 to 30 degrees centigrade!

This Stone wall was constructed back in the 1830's by convict labour. It supports the Great North Road which was the main link between Sydney and the Hunter Valley.

We did this one whilst out caching on Dartmoor, Devon, South-West UK. There are literally thousands of old stone walls on the moors...we were spoilt for choice!
This wall is located in one of the prettiest areas of the moor, in a village called Hexworthy. As you can see from the picture, there is also a lovely old stone bridge, which is the main road in and out of the village!
Many thanks, The Hancock Clan.

This low stone wall is about 5km south of Callington, which is itself about 50km ESE of Adelaide in South Australia. Not a huge spectacular example, and it appears obvious the farmer on one side doesn't trust it to keep the sheep in as he has added wire next to the wall.

I remember a visit to Wales in 1997, seeing the stone walls marching up the sides of the mountains there. Must have been a huge amount of work to build those.

I grew up in country Victoria in Australia, and we just accepted these stone fences as part of the landscape. They are dotted all around the south-western part of the State. My mother always told us that they were constructed by convict labourers, but somehow, I think Australia's convict period was well-and-truly over when these fences were built. Still, they would be well over 100 years old. Some of them are crumbling now, and local farmers don't have the expertise to repair them, and prefer to replace them with more traditional fencing. I'm not aware of any of these fences being consciously dismantled by farmers. After all, you would be hard pressed to find a better constructed and more solid fence that is virtually maintenance free, doesn't rust, provides wind protection for stock, and looks as good as this. The fence in the attached pictures is located just outside Mortlake in Victoria, Australia.

Drystone walls were in common use during the construction of the convict built Great North Road from Sydney to Newcastle. Commenced in 1828, the road took 5 years to build.
This wall section appears to be type 2a as detailed at http://www.convicttrail.org/ctp/gnrconstruct/gnrwalls.html
and is located on a section if the road normally accessable to walkers or push bike riders.

Drystone walls were in common use during the construction of the convict built Great North Road from Sydney to Newcastle. Commenced in 1828, the road took 5 years to build.
This wall section appears to be type 2a as detailed at http://www.convicttrail.org/ctp/gnrconstruct/gnrwalls.html
and is located on a section if the road normally accessable to walkers or push bike riders.

While travelling tup the north east coast of Bali in Indonesia, Kathryn and myself noticed this old stone wall adjacent to the road. We stopped to photograph and log its location. This area of Bali is very poor, and all natural objects are used wherever possible. Local rocks are used for walls such as this without using motor or cement since the earth is so dense it does not wash away easily, as well as in building materials (mixed with cement to form concrete for the many creek/river crossings). Farming utilizes as much of the available land as possible, and you must see the steepness of the hills that are used for rice production to believe it. This wall is likely to have existed for many generations, since land is handed down to family members, and so it is quite likely to be many hundreds of years old.

This stone wall is located in Arthurs Pass township, in New Zealand's Southern Alps. And seems to be used as a retaining wall, though there are some bits that have given way.

The old stone wall was built in the early 1900s as a fence dividing paddocks on the very top of the Bethel Range, South Australia. Pioneering farmers used whatever material was available to do the job. This is a dry stone wall but further along in the paddock is a fence made of tree stumps that were gathered when the land was cleared. I often go there to view the beautiful sunsets and night skies.

West of this wall is the small farming community of Stockport where TeamAstro regularly visit the observatory and look at the night sky.

clear skies
TeamAstro


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