Candice:

Try contacting Richard Tufnell of the

Drystone Masonry Conservancy
3533 Winding Drive
Lexington, KY  40517

Phone::606-272-4807

Bryan
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Candice Brashears wrote:
>
> 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