aberdeen granite
Consumption Dyke, Kingswells, Aberdeenshire
Nothing to do with tuberculosis, consumption means here to consume; in other words this massive field dyke (wall) is composed of stone taken from surrounding parks (fields). Partially done in the 1850s, a moment in what is generally known as agricultural improvement but more exactly was the deepening of the cash economy, capitalism in Aberdeenshire agriculture. The dyke is over 500 yards long and 33 feet wide with a paved way along its length and at breaks dressed stone steps. The manual labour that went into its years of construction was immense giving some idea of the work required to tame much of the agricultural land of Aberdeenshire.
Consumption Dyke, Kingswells, Aberdeenshire
Nothing to do with tuberculosis, consumption means here to consume; in other words this massive field dyke (wall) is composed of stone taken from surrounding parks (fields). Partially done in the 1850s, a moment in what is generally known as agricultural improvement but more exactly was the deepening of the cash economy, capitalism in Aberdeenshire agriculture. The dyke is over 500 yards long and 33 feet wide with a paved way along its length and at breaks dressed stone steps. The manual labour that went into its years of construction was immense giving some idea of the work required to tame much of the agricultural land of Aberdeenshire.