The whole register

All 23 guides, in walking order — onto the plateau, through the rock, out at the spring, into the pan, and on to the slope and the vat.

1.1
A valley that cuts backwards
A reculée is a blind valley walled on three sides. It did not erode downstream from a river — it ate backwards into the plateau from a spring, undermining the cliff above until it collapsed, over and over.
Out at the spring
1.2
The cirque head
The closed end, where the spring is and the collapse happens.
Out at the spring
1.3
Scree and retreat
The rubble apron that records how fast the wall is going back.
Out at the spring
1.4
Dry valleys
Watercourses on the plateau with no water in them, and where it went.
Onto the plateau
1.5
The plateau edge
A hard line on the map that is a hard line on the ground.
Onto the plateau

2.1
The rock is the reservoir
Limestone stores rain in fissures and gives it back at a spring, so the flow answers the weather with a delay measured in days.
Through the rock
2.2
Swallow holes
Where a surface stream goes underground and stops being visible.
Through the rock
2.3
Dye tracing
Colouring the water to find out which spring it comes out of.
Through the rock
2.4
Flood response
A karst spring can multiply its flow in hours. What that does downstream.
Out at the spring
2.5
Hard water
Dissolved limestone carried out and re-deposited as tufa.
Out at the spring

03 · Salt

3.1
Brine comes up on its own
Some springs here are salt, because the water has crossed a buried evaporite bed. The industry existed because the resource surfaced itself.
Into the pan
3.2
Boiling the pan
Shallow iron pans over fire, and the fuel that dominated the cost.
Into the pan
3.3
Graduation towers
Sheds packed with thorn bundles, trickling brine to concentrate it by evaporation before any fuel is burned.
Into the pan
3.4
The half-circle plan
A saltworks laid out as a geometric arc — production organised as architecture.
Into the pan
3.5
The brine pipeline
Moving the water to the fuel instead of the fuel to the water.
Into the pan

4.1
Grey marl
The clay beneath the limestone edge holds water and warmth differently, which is why the vines are where they are.
After the water · the slope
4.2
The slope is the vineyard
Drainage, aspect and the frost that sits in the flat ground below.
After the water · the slope
4.3
Wine under a veil
A film of yeast left to form on the surface in a part-filled barrel.
After the water · the barrel
4.4
The cellar in the rock
Constant temperature without machinery.
After the water · the cellar

5.1
Cheese made in common
A single farm could not produce enough milk in a day for one large wheel, so milk was pooled and the cheese was made and owned collectively.
After the water · the vat
5.2
The copper vat
Why the metal matters, and the shape that lets one person work it.
After the water · the vat
5.3
The wheel and the cellar
Size as a storage strategy: a big wheel keeps because of its own mass.
After the water · the cellar
5.4
Turning and rubbing
Months of handling in a cold cellar, and the rind it builds.
After the water · the cellar