Section 04 · 5 entries
The Herding Year
Up the mountain and back down. Two addresses in one year, and a set of buildings at each end of the walk.
Every entry in The Herding Year
- Up and back downFlocks moved to high pasture for the summer and back to the coast for the winter, and the buildings follow that movement.
- The stone hutA corbelled drystone shelter built without timber or mortar.
- The sheepfoldA drystone enclosure sited by water and shelter rather than by boundary.
- Cheese on the mountainMaking at altitude because the milk could not be carried down.
- The pathsRoutes worn by animals over centuries, and how they read in the ground.
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