[muawiyah]

When you see mindnumbingly large stone fences just meandering through the countryside without apparant purpose anywhere in the world you know they were built by slaves.

Their masters were concerned the slaves didn't have enough to do and were probably plotting an uprising.

Quite likely the newly arriving Caribe Indians in the South (back in the 9th and 10th centuries) put their Northe American captives to work moving rock and raising corn.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I guess we’d better start making them now. ;)

[uglybiker]

Their masters were concerned the slaves didn't have enough to do and were probably plotting an uprising.

Sounds more like Union bosses. ;-)

[PistolPaknMama]

When you see mindnumbingly large stone fences just meandering through the countryside without apparant purpose anywhere in the world you know they were built by slaves. Their masters were concerned the slaves didn't have enough to do and were probably plotting an uprising.

The fences in the pictures posted here seem to have a definite purpose. They are built on very steep hills which probably means they were agricultural, in order to create "steps" on which to grow crops in hilly terrain.

Just a guess looking at these pictures.

[hinckley buzzard]

Quite likely the newly arriving Caribe Indians in the South (back in the 9th and 10th centuries) put their Northe American captives to work moving rock and raising corn

Having grown up in farm country, I remember well seeing windrows of rocks like this, put there by past farmers clearing them out of fields so they could plant. They had to put the rocks somewhere so they made piles of them along tree-lines and property lines. Some of them marked abandoned fields which had since overgrown with second growth woods, making the rocks look rather mysterious in their origins.