The
way in which roadways sink and churchyards rise can be easily explained
by the natural forces of erosion and deposition. Less easy to explain
is the remarkably fine nature of the stonework,
the size of some
stones and their variety. Do they represent a period of prosperity
in the village when it was decided to make a better churchyard wall
than anyone else in the area or was it about recycling
stones
from the earlier church as it was rebuilt during the middle ages?
Careful recording and analysis of the stone should tell us much.