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Built to Last!

Built to Last!
Outside wall of a croft house on the Isle of Skye,

Note the hanging stones keeping the roof netting in place

Frans Schols, Smiley Derleth, Ulrich John, ColRam and 44 other people have particularly liked this photo


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 raingirl
raingirl club
I've never seen such a thing as the hanging stones. Very cool - the whole thing. And indeed, rock walls are so amazingly wonderful and lasting. Ah to be on the Isle of Skye.
17 months ago.
 Roger (Grisly)
Roger (Grisly) club has replied
Thank you, Laura, there are no means of attaching the netting otherwise, because many of the islands are treeless for the roofs they relied on driftwood which was often available from shipwrecks that had floundered on this dangerous coastline.
17 months ago.
 raingirl
raingirl club has replied
So what you are saying is they made lemonade out of lemons (shipwrecks) - haha!
17 months ago.
 Roger (Grisly)
Roger (Grisly) club has replied
Spot on Laura, Shipwrecks were sometimes induced by showing false lights and drawing ships onto the rocks!
17 months ago.
 raingirl
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*wow*
17 months ago.

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