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Farmers can improve their skills across various farming areas after a number of new courses have been launched.

Farmers can improve their skills across various farming areas after a number of new courses have been launched.

The ancient craft of dry stone walling is dying out. But now, two young craftsmen in Scotland are trying to save the ancient art from extinction, one wall at a time.

Stonework can be found everywhere in New England, but what about stone art?

Stonework can be found everywhere in New England, but what about stone art?

SETTLE’S Victoria Hall was packed to the rafters last week for the Big Settle Quiz, a fundraiser for The Principle Trust which was hosted on…

Built inside it. but we do have a good sense of what a broch may have been in its completed form. dry stone towers of that size, and you especially see it with mousa, its a difficult endeavour to begin with to build one. the fact that they have lasted as long as they have, the fact that they go through several phases of occupation spanning somewhere around 1,000 years is attractive to a heritage tourist. the caithness broch project is an experimental archaeological initiative aiming to build a f...

Still standing is mousa. mousa broch is the most intact broch that we have. it does, of course, have a secondary structure from a later occupation phase built inside it. but we do have a good sense of what a broch may have been in its completed form. dry stone towers of that size, and you especially see it with mousa, its a difficult endeavour to begin with to build one. the fact that they have lasted as long as they have, the fact that they go through several phases of occupation spanning somew...

Walls and 13 metres high. still, after hundreds of years of archaeology, were not entirely sure we have a modern perception of what buildings are the most complete. broch still standing is mousa. mousa broch is the most intact broch that we have. it does, of course, have a secondary structure from a later occupation phase built inside it. but we do have a good sense of what a broch may have been in its completed form. dry stone towers of that size, and you especially see it with mousa, its a dif...

Of what a broch may have been in its completed form. dry stone towers of that size, and you especially see it with mousa, its a difficult endeavour to begin with to build one. the fact that they have lasted as long as they have, the fact that they go through several phases of occupation spanning somewhere around 1,000 years is attractive to a heritage tourist. the caithness broch project is an experimental archaeological initiative aiming to build a full—scale broch from scratch using traditio...