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Originally Posted by Mathos 
Since talking to Happyman on here with regards to so many things that our land can tell us, I tend to look more in depth at areas, than I have ever done.
I'm holding on though, I daren't read more into the same than there is. 
There really are some spectacular places. 
The traffic never stops on these UK Motorways.
There is obviouasly a great deal shouting out from this scene. I'll leave it Happyman to decipher for me though. 
I'm lost.  
The black wall affair has me banging my head on the floor!  |
Hey Mathos !
Have a calculated guess and then start digging .
Back in circulation for a few days so I shall ignore all those pics of trout streams that you keep posting, and just look at the recent ones !!
First one looks like spoil heaps from surface mining of some sort.
Second one needs a little TLC applied to that wall - give me a week or so with my hammer and I will get it sorted !
Third one is interesting - have no idea of scale but it "looks like" a sett bench.
Behind the wall there is an overgrown Quarry.
A sett bench is where the secondary quarry men used to square up the stones for building or roads using just a hammer and chisel !!- on piecework !!!! Two old pence each at the turn of the last century !!! Six pence for a bloody granite railway sleeper !!!
The taller stones on the side were what they put their workpiece on and the finished setts were stacked on top of the bench - at a height where they could be loaded onto a cart.
I have blown the pic up as far as I cant "guesstimate" the height
- Sett benches I have seen in the past were about 5- 6 foot high .
Cheers