{"id":9560,"date":"2021-06-29T12:38:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T16:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=9560"},"modified":"2021-09-09T07:19:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T11:19:33","slug":"episode-378-stone-silo-circa-1870-1880-where-did-they-get-the-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=9560","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 378 STONE SILO CIRCA 1870-1880: WHERE DID THEY GET THE STONES?"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE 378    STONE SILO CIRCA 1870-1880: WHERE DID THEY GET THE STONES?<\/p>\n

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This stone silo has stood here since Angus McLean built it in the 1870\u2019s.  ( McLean-Saunders-MacLeod-Skeoch, Skeoch, Con\u2026owners)<\/div>\n
Take a close look.  Not one stone is uniform.  Sizes and shapes are never replicated.  It looks unstable yet the silo is now over <\/div>\n
150 years old.  An unusual piece of Scottish stonemasons art.<\/div>\n

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Angus McLean had to use whatever was available.  And in Erin Township, Wellington County,<\/div>\n
Ontario stones were always available.  They still are.  Each year a new crop of stones is pushed <\/div>\n
to the surface.  \u201cThat\u2019s my best crop.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Stone are available if we decide to make the silo higher.   One factor is missing.  The skill to take rounded irregular stones<\/div>\n
of all sizes  and put them together in such a way that they will stand for 150 years.  Angus McLean died a long time ago.<\/div>\n

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Enthusiastic stone pickers.<\/div>\n

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Piled on a stone boat.<\/div>\n

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Hauled oto a designated spot for the stone pile.  Then unloaded.   There were always snakes ready to take up residence in<\/div>\n
the stone pile.<\/div>\n

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Why was this rocky land given or sold to Scottish migrants in the 19th century?  Simple answer.  Scotland is<\/div>\n
full of stone fields.   The land agents figured Scots would like stone fields.  And they did.  Stone houses were <\/div>\n
a specialty as was the stone house built on the Skeoch farm near Fergus.  Like the silo , it is still standing.<\/div>\n

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EPISODE 378    STONE SILO CIRCA 1870-1880: WHERE DID THEY GET THE STONES? alan skeoch June 2021 This stone silo has stood here since Angus McLean built it in the 1870\u2019s.  ( McLean-Saunders-MacLeod-Skeoch, Skeoch, Con\u2026owners) Take a close look.  Not one stone is uniform.  Sizes and shapes are never replicated.  It looks unstable yet the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}