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Category: DSWA Leaflets

Posted on March 4, 2021March 7, 2021 by Amy-Louise Pfeffer

Master Class: Technical Specifications for Simple Retaining Walls

For practical purposes, retaining walls may be divided into two types: “domestic” walls, under 1.5m in height and not subject to heavy loading such as field walls with a substantial difference in ground level on either side, garden retaining walls or ha-ha. These notes refer to these “domestic” walls.

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Category: DSWA Leaflets
Posted on February 16, 2018February 16, 2018 by Theresa Spear

Geology for Wallers

For practical purposes, retaining walls may be divided into two types: “domestic” walls, under 1.5m in height and not subject to heavy loading such as field walls with a substantial difference in ground level on either side, garden retaining walls or ha-ha. These notes refer to these “domestic” walls.

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Category: DSWA Leaflets
Posted on February 12, 2018February 12, 2018 by Theresa Spear

Technical Specifications for Dry Stone Walls

There are three key areas in the use of dry stone: free standing walls which are by far the most common application of the craft in the United Kingdom; load bearing retaining walls and domestic structures particularly houses, barns and ancient monuments. These notes deal with free standing walls of a generally found type

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Category: DSWA Leaflets
Posted on February 12, 2018February 12, 2018 by Theresa Spear

Technical Specifications for Simple Retaining Walls

For practical purposes, retaining walls may be divided into two types: “domestic” walls, under 1.5m in height and not subject to heavy loading such as field walls with a substantial difference in ground level on either side, garden retaining walls or ha-ha. These notes refer to these “domestic” walls.

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Category: DSWA Leaflets
Posted on February 12, 2018February 12, 2018 by Theresa Spear

Specifications for Cotswold Oolitic Limestone Walls

The main body of the wall is made up of two of sides of carefully shaped stones, which may be laid in courses or randomly. Since limestone absorbs water, the stones are laid with a slight tilt to the outside edge, allowing water to be shed from the stone.

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Category: DSWA Leaflets
Posted on February 12, 2018February 12, 2018 by Theresa Spear

Dry Stone Walls Around Churchyards

Churchyards all have a boundary to define the sacred area and, more practically, to keep farm animals out. However, sheep, goats and geese are sometimes shut inside nowadays until the grass is cut. Depending on the type of country, the boundary may be a hedge, or a stone or brick wall built using mortar.

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Category: DSWA Leaflets
Posted on February 9, 2018February 16, 2018 by Theresa Spear

Notes on Building a Cairn

Always seems to be on top of a hill. Unlike hill dykes where stone is traditionally brought down to the site, the materials for a cairn have to be transported UP the hill. These days it is unreasonable to expect any builder to cart stone uphill using biceps and boot leather, so some form of…

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Category: DSWA Leaflets
Posted on February 9, 2018February 12, 2018 by Theresa Spear

Butts for Shooting, Shelter or Watching

Lines of dry stone shooting butts are a distinctive landscape feature on our upland heather moors, some of the earliest examples dating back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. They usually consist of a dry stone enclosure to conceal the occupants and offer some shelter from the elements, topped off with turf.

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Category: DSWA Leaflets
Posted on February 9, 2018February 12, 2018 by Theresa Spear

Inspection of Walling Work

This leaflet gives guidance on what to look for in dry stone walls so you have value for money and know that they have been built to last. It has been produced in response to requests to the DSWA over the years concerning the quality of work that has already been carried out.

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Category: DSWA Leaflets
Posted on February 9, 2018February 12, 2018 by Theresa Spear

Bee Boles

Until the late 1800s bees were kept in straw skeps, mostly on benches in the open, or on a shelf in an open-fronted shelter. But in wetter and windier parts of Britain, some beekeepers kept them in bee boles. These are recesses built in a wall specifically for housing skeps,

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