Grooved boulders, Birch Close Lane, Bingley

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Grooved boulders, Birch Close Lane, Bingley

Image: © Humphrey Bolton Taken: 2 Apr 2008

I would expect that these boulders were cleared from the land and then used to build the wall, but are the grooves from the drilling prior to blasting in the quarry? Perhaps the boulders are too rounded for that to be so.

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