Game: Name that road!
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Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
You probably don't realise just how close you are with these! 🚗
I'm still hoping someone can fill more of the detail I'm hinting at with the m'lard clue.
OldShep
Über Member
- Location
- South West Scotland
Walls/ dykes and the way they are constructed are one of the few regional differences left in the countryside. Forty years ago I could look at a gate and tell you whether it was made in Harrogate, Reeth, or Carlisle. Now they are all galvanised built to different prices. Other variations are in the way fences are built but even that is becoming more standardised.
Mr Celine
Discordian
- Location
- Waxing my moustache
The main reason for local variations in dry stane dykes is the type of local stones. Each metre length of dyke contains a ton of stone, so you build with what is there. The basic technique is always the same but the result can look very different.
The wall in the current challenge is in a locale which appears to have abundant through stones. These are long stones that span the width of the wall about half way up and there should be one every metre or so. They are usually the hardest stones to find.
On the other hand there doesn't seem to be many decent cope stones. These just need to be big as their weight helps to tie the wall together. Instead of single cope stones the dyker appears to have used a combination of longer stones with a largish one on top.
A cope like this also suggests that this dyke is in sheep country. Cows or horses would scratch themselves on the projecting parts of the cope and fairly soon wreck it, leading to the collapse of the rest of the wall.
Walls in limestone areas tend to look very different. The building stones are squarer and more regular in size and the copes are very neat. Through stones are much less frequent.
The knowledge that the wall in the current challenge is not in a limestone area is of no practical use, it having already been guessed that this in Scotland where there is next to no limestone anyway.
Apart from thinking it looks vaguely Trossachs like I'm stuck.
The wall in the current challenge is in a locale which appears to have abundant through stones. These are long stones that span the width of the wall about half way up and there should be one every metre or so. They are usually the hardest stones to find.
On the other hand there doesn't seem to be many decent cope stones. These just need to be big as their weight helps to tie the wall together. Instead of single cope stones the dyker appears to have used a combination of longer stones with a largish one on top.
A cope like this also suggests that this dyke is in sheep country. Cows or horses would scratch themselves on the projecting parts of the cope and fairly soon wreck it, leading to the collapse of the rest of the wall.
Walls in limestone areas tend to look very different. The building stones are squarer and more regular in size and the copes are very neat. Through stones are much less frequent.
The knowledge that the wall in the current challenge is not in a limestone area is of no practical use, it having already been guessed that this in Scotland where there is next to no limestone anyway.
Apart from thinking it looks vaguely Trossachs like I'm stuck.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
As do the sheep in one of the photos
classic33
Leg End Member
"Limestones occur in southern Ayrshire and in a very broken band running northeastwards through the Pentland Hills towards Edinburgh. There are limited outcrops on the coasts of East Lothian and Berwickshire, isolated outcrops in Fife and Stirlingshire and further occurrences around Greenock and Dumbarton."The main reason for local variations in dry stane dykes is the type of local stones. Each metre length of dyke contains a ton of stone, so you build with what is there. The basic technique is always the same but the result can look very different.
The wall in the current challenge is in a locale which appears to have abundant through stones. These are long stones that span the width of the wall about half way up and there should be one every metre or so. They are usually the hardest stones to find.
On the other hand there doesn't seem to be many decent cope stones. These just need to be big as their weight helps to tie the wall together. Instead of single cope stones the dyker appears to have used a combination of longer stones with a largish one on top.
A cope like this also suggests that this dyke is in sheep country. Cows or horses would scratch themselves on the projecting parts of the cope and fairly soon wreck it, leading to the collapse of the rest of the wall.
Walls in limestone areas tend to look very different. The building stones are squarer and more regular in size and the copes are very neat. Through stones are much less frequent.
The knowledge that the wall in the current challenge is not in a limestone area is of no practical use, it having already been guessed that this in Scotland where there is next to no limestone anyway.
Apart from thinking it looks vaguely Trossachs like I'm stuck.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous_Limestone
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
Too far north.
OldShep
Über Member
- Location
- South West Scotland
Thinking aloud
23rd April 1984
Scotland
is there a mountain in view or are they hills?
Ahh anything over 2000' is a mountain, just googled, and I’ve always thought them hills.
hills aren’t right for the Borders and seems too much without Sitka spruce for D&G.
23rd April 1984
Scotland
is that a tv, film, or book reference? Means nothing to me.
is there a mountain in view or are they hills?
Ahh anything over 2000' is a mountain, just googled, and I’ve always thought them hills.
suggesting D&G or the Borders?
hills aren’t right for the Borders and seems too much without Sitka spruce for D&G.
T4tomo
Legendary Member
https://www.google.com/maps/@54.976...4!1shCdw5FjuwE7_esQAUc0Vxw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
I haven't quite worked out all the clues yet, but saw a Minnigaff on the map...
I haven't quite worked out all the clues yet, but saw a Minnigaff on the map...
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Minnigaff!
T4tomo
Legendary Member
even with the OS map in from of me none of this make in any sense
I think I just got lucky zooming in on OS maps and seeing Minnigaff
i see no spoons, not even a weatherspoons:
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
OldShep
Über Member
- Location
- South West Scotland
MinnigaffMinnigaff!
I’m useless at this game. I dread to think how many times I’ve cycled that. Bill & Anne Yate were wardens.
