#dry-stone

"Suchailou," Santiago de Compostela route, France,

Courtesy: Constance Guisset Studio, Derrière le Hublot, Pierre Sèche Haute-Loire, Lucie Delmas,

Perhaps the oldest walling in Westerdale.

An orthostat, in the true sense of the word, is a large upright stone, think of a standing stone or menhir, but one that has been built into a structure or wall. There’s a few in Stonehenge. However, the term has been applied vernacularly to any huge stones that are built into walls such as this one in Westerdale. A proper orthostat. The general opinion is that a wall constructed in this way is…