Mysteries, Chemtrails, Aerosols :: Mysterious NZ

[steve clougher]

woke up this morning thinking about the Kaimanawa wall, so read all the captions on all the photos, and had to put in my pennyworth

in the comments by protagonists and experts, in spite of an admirably thorough attempt by the authors, to be impartial and show all sides, there is one angle missing, that of a stone-wall builder, which i realised, reluctantly, that i am qualified to contribute

if these stones are part of a construction, cut and shaped and carried from a distance, then they have been laid in with remarkable inattention to the basic rules of building in stone

in stone walls, as in bricklaying, it is anathema to lay two courses such that there is a continuous crack, from one course to the next.....this is called a "vertical joint", and to the educated eye, a vertical joint is like listening to an orchestra with one horribly out-of-tune instrument......it sticks out from a great distance, and screams of amateur building, and makes the expert look for two things:

first, the quality of the rocks, that have been wasted by some fool

second, other indications of awkwardness

i have seen hundreds of pictures of ancient stonework, and a few up close and personal, and i've never once seen vertical joints like these in the Kaimanawa wall pics

well, was that a pennyworth, or what?