Drystone walls will simply not stand up to the pressure of orienteering.
There have been drystone wall builders and repair firms.
It is in a small wood and surrounded by a circular drystone wall.
We must accept that, as with the maintenance of drystone walls, that is a labour-intensive, costly and negative income exercise.
Indeed, much of our currently accessible open land is covered in drystone walls and can be regarded as enclosed land.
It does not include drystone walls or other important threatened rural features such as ponds.
The surviving drystone walls rise to about three metres (10 ft) and are more than four metres (13 ft) thick in some places.
The construction of brochs, with their double-skinned drystone walls made it possible to build tall yet comparatively lightweight structures.
