Abandoned posts

A pair of abandoned posts, on the way to the cows with the crumpled horns, made by Francis Morton at either the Naylor Street Ironworks or the Hamilton Works, Garston, both of Liverpool.

One of the first Victorians to make a million pounds out of barbed wire fencing, along the way helping along with the enclosure of places such as Hardy's Egdon Heath, on which, before Morton's wire, it not worth the bother and expense of trying to run cows.

Presumably now, even with the Chinese dumping cut price iron & steel all over, a farmer could not afford fence posts of this quality. Relative prices have shifted, so iron posts are out and wood posts are in.

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