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Thank you all for spending the time to comment, the construction of these walls would have taken a huge effort in time and manpower, they were partly carried in and also picked from the land during cultivation. The hills here are Granite and up above this valley floor are quarries, people could earn far more cutting rock than trying to cultivate hard ground. When the young men left the farms to work stone they seldom came back the farms were left to the elderly and many farms died alongside their owners. The lands were generally added to those of relatives, so today probably 95% of the original land is still in use, but the countryside is littered with the failed endeavours of man.