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Inlaid wood or semi-precious stones (intarsia) is a venerated craft here, perfected in the 16th century.
Many of the Balearic Islands are strewn with rocks and boulders, and these early peoples built simple stone houses and cleared fields by piling the stones into dividing walls.
Now one of the members of the Altrincham Court Leet takes a branch of willow and swishes it against the stones occurring along the route.
Life must have been pretty boring for the soldiers as many had the time to carve their names in the stones along the battlements.
Alternative names for this maneuver are bridging or foot and backing . Piles of stones ( cairns or stonemen ) are built on peaks and along cols (a saddle or pass ). A `sharp rock ridge' is an arete , sometimes only passable by going a chaval [ à cheval ], that is, `sitting astride the top as on a horse.