Posted by husky51 on 04.29.2015, 04:49 AM: I and my children have been up that canyon many, many times as that is one of the places that I took them to start their firearms training. |
Posted by arren18 on 04.29.2015, 10:43 AM: That handwriting is really hard to read, but judging by some of the letters I can make out, it seems to be Swedish. I don't know Swedish but I'm pretty sure "godt" is "good". I can't read any of the other words well enough to make any guesses though.
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Posted by Saddletank on 04.29.2015, 11:20 AM: It's signed "Augusta". Presumably a female name. I suspect the writing is something innocuous like "we visited here today and it was good" or some such.
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Posted by husky51 on 04.29.2015, 01:48 PM: The ground level has come up a bit and the 'hump' atop the structure is gone, but otherwise it is the same, I believe. Seems to be five layers of stonework. Roughly the same in the early photo.
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Posted by Saddletank on 04.29.2015, 02:55 PM: There are lime kilns like that all over Britain, some date back to the 1500s but most are Victorian or early 1800s. The lime burning industry boomed with the advent of cheap coal as a fuel.
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Posted by husky51 on 04.29.2015, 08:04 PM: Un fortunately, we have jackasses over here who think everyone wants to see some token of THEIR existance in this workd... I'd rather heat them up in a kiln... lol |
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