Ads
related to: reclaimed stone gate posts
Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Slip gates are a form of gate which permits people and vehicles through an entrance but which blocks the passage of animals. Branches or worked wood crossbars or stangs were used, one field slip gate pier with L-shaped grooves and the opposing stile gatepost with square or circular concavities to receive the three or four horizontal crossbars.
1872: The Good Samaritan Convent, 484 Pitt Street. Architect: D.W. Ryan. The extent of Wran's sculpture is not recorded but four gate posts in sandstone were reclaimed when the convent was demolished in 1901 to make way for the new Central Railway Station and removed to St Scholastica's College, on the corner of Avenue and Arcadia Roads in Glebe.
Fencepost limestone, Post Rock limestone, or Stone Post is a stone bed in the Great Plains notable for its historic use as fencing and construction material in north-central Kansas resulting in unique cultural expression. The source of this stone is the topmost layer of the Greenhorn Limestone formation.
Archaeologists recently spotted hundreds of stone “gates” in Saudi Arabia, it’s estimated the walls could be as many as 7,000 years old.
The 'Slip Gate' etc. is a refinement of the 'Slap' gate that simply used spars that were slotted into hedgerow trees or dry stone dykes without purpose made piers [6] and as these were still in use in the mid 20th century [6] it is difficult to date when 'Slip Gates' were first used, however all field enclosures required gates and therefore they could date back as far as the Iron Age, however ...
Each stone grouping features a tall capped, stone post topped by a large cut metal pictorial sign. [2] The posts have flanking stone Y-shaped half-walls parallel to the drive. [ 2 ] These half-walls have corresponding block U-shaped half-walls that along with the Y-shaped half-walls jointly form a square through which new concrete sidewalks run ...
The gatehouses are small temple-like stone structures, with rough-coursed masonry (rustication) on the sides and rear and a small Tuscan order porch on the front. The material is Aquia Creek sandstone of a rather poor grade. The east gatehouse bears two high water marks carved into the stone to commemorate flooding in 1877 and 1881. [5]
Stone baths with access to the river were sited until 1924 where the central BBQ shelter now stands. A sandstone wall with columns ran from the baths across the reclaimed land. Part of this stone wall remains at the waters edge. Behind the reclaimed land the site climbed through a series of informal retaining walls to two terraces of sloping lawn.
Ads
related to: reclaimed stone gate posts