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arren18
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That handwriting is really hard to read, but judging by some of the letters I can make out, it seems to be Swedish. I don't know Swedish but I'm pretty sure "godt" is "good". I can't read any of the other words well enough to make any guesses though.
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It's signed "Augusta". Presumably a female name. I suspect the writing is something innocuous like "we visited here today and it was good" or some such.
"i hast" is "in haste"
I see in 1992 at least one row of stones, maybe two have been stolen off the top of the lime kilns.
quote: Wi ano (?) annu man ach hadar ach drinken (?) wallen, ach mai godt, i hast,
augusta
is how I read it.
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There are lime kilns like that all over Britain, some date back to the 1500s but most are Victorian or early 1800s. The lime burning industry boomed with the advent of cheap coal as a fuel.
Here are some really serious ones at Ambergate, near Crich, Northamptonshire.
http://www.crichparish.co.uk/webpages/limekilns.html
They come in all shapes and sizes and because we Brits take great pride in the industrial revolution which began in the west midlands, Cornwall, Newcastle and South Wales, many are preserved as ancient monuments so you never see them defaced with graffiti like your example.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=lime+k...FiZ8r59FbyWM%3A
Quicklime was used in mortars in the building industry and of course as a fertilizer for agriculture. Its widespread use allowed the farming revolution in Britain to became firmly established leading to significant population growth in the 1800s.
/history lesson
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