I don't think there is a cheap way of doing it natalie unless you can do it yourselves. I'd offer my services but I'm up to my eyes with my own fence!
Is it mainly the water wheel bit that's an issue? The rest of the wall just look like it leads on to 'normal' height land. Could you just fence a small area for the children?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I was born and lived most of my younger years on a farm mother and father pointed out all the places we had not to go or play on from a very young age and none of us our anyone elses kids that vistited had any nasty accidents. The farm had a main road right outside and across the road a large wood area plus all the dangers of a farm father would walk around the farm and show us the dangers we had all the freedom except those places it worked.
Thanks all for your replies. I will think about attaching a trellis or iron fence along the wheel-wall. As someone pointed out, if i'm going to put plants there , the wall will be largely lost anyway! The other wall with the stoney top is a bit more probematic since it's not flat. It's got a 20ft drop to a stream. In the corner where the 2 walls meet i will hopefully have a quarter-circle paving/decking/pebbled area for table and chairs, and so i need some sort of protection at the back from the wind. So i guess the fence would also solve the problem of keeping the winds down a bit. At the moment its a massive (dangerous) blank canvass so it's even knowing where to start!
oh and Andy19 for sure, they absolutely get told to keep away from the wall, but i'm too scared to even go and make a cup of tea just in case one of them decides to do something crazy. As you say, it's not just my kids, it's those that might come and play and not understand/accept the rules.
It's a question of which is more important - the children or an archaeological site. I'd fence the whole grassed area about 2 metres in from the parapets, leaving that 2 metres for maintenance and planting.
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We were posting at same time there wb!
I don't think there is a cheap way of doing it natalie unless you can do it yourselves. I'd offer my services but I'm up to my eyes with my own fence!
Is it mainly the water wheel bit that's an issue? The rest of the wall just look like it leads on to 'normal' height land. Could you just fence a small area for the children?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
..not if there were drainage holes drill through the wall..
I was thinking about one that was wide enough for a path.
Be me to it Fg I was going to suggest a "pen"
I was born and lived most of my younger years on a farm mother and father pointed out all the places we had not to go or play on from a very young age and none of us our anyone elses kids that vistited had any nasty accidents. The farm had a main road right outside and across the road a large wood area plus all the dangers of a farm father would walk around the farm and show us the dangers we had all the freedom except those places it worked.
If kids to small for doing that fence in a nice play area to keep them away from the wall till they get older and understand the danger's.
Thanks all for your replies. I will think about attaching a trellis or iron fence along the wheel-wall. As someone pointed out, if i'm going to put plants there , the wall will be largely lost anyway! The other wall with the stoney top is a bit more probematic since it's not flat. It's got a 20ft drop to a stream. In the corner where the 2 walls meet i will hopefully have a quarter-circle paving/decking/pebbled area for table and chairs, and so i need some sort of protection at the back from the wind. So i guess the fence would also solve the problem of keeping the winds down a bit. At the moment its a massive (dangerous) blank canvass so it's even knowing where to start!
i do like the idea of putting the kids on a rope and just leaving them to it!!
oh and Andy19 for sure, they absolutely get told to keep away from the wall, but i'm too scared to even go and make a cup of tea just in case one of them decides to do something crazy. As you say, it's not just my kids, it's those that might come and play and not understand/accept the rules.
I'd put 6 foot high wire mesh all the way along and plant clematis or honeysuckle up it.
It's a question of which is more important - the children or an archaeological site. I'd fence the whole grassed area about 2 metres in from the parapets, leaving that 2 metres for maintenance and planting.