Photography
Related: About this forumAnother look at the Nugahric
This site has a special well. The stairs and pool at the bottom are lit by the sun during the equinox months. From about 1000 BC.
The low walls were fences. It is interesting that the description waxes poetically about the workmanship of the pool and entrance but the low walls, which are 3,000 years old, took no particular skill to build....
Low skill walls....
Symbiosys
View from the top of a structure
Sheep in the sunlight.
CaliforniaPeggy
(152,106 posts)I get a pretty good idea what they must have looked like when they were first built.
Beautiful shots! Thank you, my dear Old Crank!
Old Crank
(4,658 posts)Bayard
(24,145 posts)Amazing that these have lasted for centuries.
Thanks for posting.
Old Crank
(4,658 posts)and small stones but still.
Stanford had a dry stack work of art constructed on campus and teh artist brought in a Scot to do the work.
Bayard
(24,145 posts)I tried building one around my big flower garden, but it kept falling apart, especially with cats playing on it all the time. I gave up and built a gabion wall.
HAB911
(9,362 posts)and great photos too!
brer cat
(26,283 posts)I knew nothing about these people or structures until 2 weeks ago...
Mousetoescamper
(5,174 posts)Old Crank
(4,658 posts)It was fun going to several sites and getting different light.