Just thought I'd inject a little serious note now and then. I'm doing
research on what is thought to be an 18th c. stone fence in southeastern CT.
It is a fully enclosed area (slope leading to wetlands) with 20th c.
overgrowth and well treed.  The poison ivy is fierce and glacial deposition
very evident.  It is known to have been used for sheep within the last 75 yrs
and likely to have had animals kept there further in the past.  There are two
gate openings (no gates left) (1 on the N. wall and 1 on the S. wall). Stone
is dry laid (like the hundreds of miles of similar fences all over
southeastern CT.

Project: Historic archaeological analysis of the rather unique burial ground
that someone forgot about well over 100 yrs ago.  We are trying to date the
wall (which looks to have been built by at least 3 different techniques or
people) to see if the stone fence was built for the burial ground & when, or
was the burial ground put in the enclosure which was already in place.
Associated farmhouse was built in 1769 and other associated dates may be as
early as 1724.

So....any experts on stone fences in Bullamanka?  All I know is basic wall
construction used about that time......dig trench, fill with gravel, top with
heavy stone, let it settle, start picking big flat stones; Period CT law was
fence of 4 1/2 ft high (sometimes 5 ft)  When was this technique started,
stopped (if it ever was) or other construction types I should look for?  Know
of any features I could look for to date this thing?

Candy Brashears