Pointless unless it now marks lots, or pastures for animals. You've never see a fence or wall to delimit the upper pasture from the lower pasture? Or to mark t

Pointless unless it now marks lots, or pastures for animals. You've never see a fence or wall to delimit the upper pasture from the lower pasture? Or to mark the area where you leave trees to grow rather than weed them as samplings, thus forming a woodlot for future generations. Stone fences in days gone by were probably very desirable say as cover when fighting the British during the revolution. Original reasons may be obsolete, but it doesn't make future reasons invalid.