Slope (fence)

See also: Slope

A slope is a natural geomorphological structure, or an installation made by the man, who can for example limit a terrace in the terrace cultivation, or to play a part of end of piece, in particular in certain landscapes of the woodlands.

For the Dictionary of the French Academy (4th edition of 1762, page 797), a slope is the “Slope which one gives to surface side & external of a wall, so that from top to bottom it is always thickening. He says also terrace without walls, when its side faces widen from top to bottom. Slope should be given, more slope with this wall, this terrace” .

One also named slope of small low walls of the woodlands built in a kind of masonry wall of grass. Vegetable ground bricks made up reinforced by the roots and grass are used. They are extracted at the immediate vicinity which was cultivated bleaches on grass some during at least one or two years. Their dimensions are about those of solid bricks traditional or appreciably larger. They are assembled by crossing them, grass downwards. The result is a construction which typically measures 1,5 meter in height, and has a width of about 2 meters at the base and about fifty centimetres at the top. The interior of the slope entirely makes up of topsoil and the top is crowned by a topsoil dome or mounds. The slope in general is sown and often planted.

One meets also slopes containing of the stones collected in a cultivated stone, slopes made up of ground excavated (for example for the construction of Dover, or the stone half-slopes (comprising a dry stone masonry on one their faces).

The Remembrement S in France levelled of very many slopes, which led to floods, flow mud and agricultural impoverishment of the soil. The rare slopes that one still builds it are with the mechanical shovel. Entirely out of ground, their stability is then obtained by ramming and by building them with less stiff sides.

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External bonds

  • rear Skol It hleuziou, the school of the slopes

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