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there's no ruin you can't easily get to hereWhat about visiting Roman ruins like in Trier..
there's no ruin you can't easily get to hereWhat about visiting Roman ruins like in Trier..
what is their purpose? keep out the kiwis?I want to point out Australia has stone walls too... mostly built in the 19th century...
https://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2007/06/13/1949948.htm
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Dry stone walls were first implemented into the landscape in Australia around the Kiama and Western Victoria regions in the 1830's. By the1870's the walls had made their way to Northern New South Wales.
Here is another link...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-17/dry-stone-walls-should-be-heritage-listed,-organisation-says/6469316#:~:text=Most of the dry stone,and were guarded by shepherds.
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Most of the dry stone walls extending across farmland had a dual role — to clear properties of troublesome rock, while also defining boundaries and paddocks. When European settlers started taking up land in the early 1800s, their sheep roamed on fenceless plains and were guarded by shepherds.
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Mr Munday said the longest continuous dry stone wall in Australia is the Camel Hump, which stretches approximately 65 kilometres from Farrell Flat to Booborowie in South Australia's mid-north.
snip... One person built a long wall to stop Australia's fame rabbit rampage...
The Rabbit Wall is one of the more significant structures in the region.
Built by the pioneering Manifold Brothers in the 1860s, its purpose was to halt the western march of rabbits across newly established farmland.
It was not very successful in stopping their progress, and to this day warrens around the base of the 20-kilometre-long wall reveal the pests are still causing trouble.
"Why you'd ever think building a 20-kilometre wall with a smooth face on one side would stop the spreads of rabbits, beats me," Mr Holdsworth said.
Right idea but wrong animal... are not kiwi's in New Zealand... It seem these stone walls were used to keep pest animals off the pastoral lands... like the wall mention at the link...what is their purpose? keep out the kiwis?
Here is a more detail map of the Romes Limes in Germany... Like I said it seems I am on the Roman side of the Line so I can claim Rome Citizenship... Are you German or Roman @rittmeister , @Wehrkraftzersetzer and @Daring Drea . Oh @O' Be Joyful , you French German you a Roman too...
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????might have been some slave quarters
romans in baden had slaves????
who would not have added the links... poor, poor, workmanship...
The opening thread and this picture make a good argument...Here a map of Virginia and her rivers... Lee used the Rappahannock to rest his army behind it. You see the river system the Confederacy should have been able to use the rivers to keep the union army at bay... If you look at the map the battle are marked... all those battle are within miles of each other... Why did lee let them cross the river unhindered...
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