Holes Old and New

These walls were built many years ago. Here a hole has been incorporated. This makes it unlikely that sheep will have been in the fields. That can't altogether be ruled out because it would have been quite easy for the hole to be plugged. These days it's ponies that you're more likely to see. The likeliest explanation for the hole is that it was for the benefit of shooters who could use dogs to recover game that had fallen over the boundary.

Foxes and badgers may well use such holes today. Indeed only a few yards away a fresh digging has appeared right next to the path.