Lifelines Book Final4:Lifelines Book
Lifelines; The Vital Dry Stone Walls of the Mendip Hills AONB Lifelines - The Vital Dry Stone Walls of the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Written & Edited by Jim Hardcastle & Merryn Nisbet Contributors Dr Ann Hill, Lin Carter, Ralph Hoyte, CHERT (Charterhouse Historic Environs Research Team); Colin Budge, Barry Lane, Pip Osbourne and Jill Polak First Published in 2008 by Mendip Hills AONB Service Charterhouse Centre Blagdon Bristol BS40 7XR © 2008 Mendip Hills AONB Service/Jim Hardcastle/Merryn Nisbet ISBN 978-0-9559110-0-2 All images copyright Mendip Hills AONB Service apart from where otherwise indicated. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the publishers. Produced by Viper Marketing & Communications Group. Chancellors Farm, Priddy Chancellors Farm, Priddy Contents Foreword page 1 Introduction page 2 Inspiring Awareness page 4 Lifelines in art Condition of Walls page 8 Passing the walls a lifeline Typology of Walls page 38 Where are the walls? page 9 Can we date Mendip dry stone walls? The five conditions page 11 The T dating technique page 40 Vulnerable walls page 14 Field surveys, drawing & observation page 41 Survey results page 15 Wall types in the Charterhouse area page 42 Conclusions page 44 Wildlife and Walls page 22 Valuable walls for wildlife Conclusions & Recommendations page 50 Common understanding page 24 Vulnerable, vital and vintage Wild flowers on Mendip walls page 32 Recommendations and volunteers page 51 1 Foreword Walls and approaching rain - David Parfitt Five years from conception to delivery of the Lifelines Project The generous funding support of the Heritage Lottery Fund, is but a mere moment in the life of our dry stone walls on the Arts Council, the National Trust and our own Mendip Mendip.
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