2006, David Kavanagh,A Country Pillow Book, page69:
But it is quite sad to reflect that some 4,500 badgersetts were already wiped out using poisoned gas between 1975 and 1982. When you consider that an averagesett can contain up to 15 animals, parents and cubs, it is easy to imagine the scale of suffering involved.
2012, J. Charles Thompson, “Introduction”, in James Grant,Scottish Tartans in Full Color:
TheVestiarium gavesetts for Lowland houses as well as Highland clans[…]and many families within the clans have their ownsetts to add to the clan tartans.[…]The clans and families are branching out with Dress and Hunting tartans, and the samesett—anysett—may be produced in dark "modern," lighter "ancient" or "muted" color schemes.
Very durable grey granite has been quarried near Aberdeen for more than 300 years, and blocked and dressed paving "setts," kerb and building stones, and monumental and other ornamental work of granite have long been exported from the district to all parts of the world.
The old market-square was not very large, a mere bare patch of granitesetts, usually with a few fruit-stalls under a wall.
2013 November 16,Tim Richardson, “The JFK memorial at Runnymede is fit to stand forever: SirGeoffrey Jellicoe's wonderful tribute toJFK at Runnymede hinges on the power of landscape [print edition: A memorial to JFK fit to stand forever]”, inThe Daily Telegraph (Gardening)[1], archived fromthe original on3 July 2015, page G8:
This path, which consists of some 60,000setts laid directly into the earth, is perhaps the single most noteworthy 'feature' of the design, lending the whole conception a feeling of unity and coherence, enhancing the sense that one has been absorbed into both the place and the journey through it.
[…] let the dialler, with the same instrument he uses underground, run a north and south line on the surface, in any convenient part of thesett, marking the extremities by well-fixed points,[…]
1898,The Mining Engineer, Great Britain: Institution of Mining Engineers, page196:
After a delay of about three months, the 24 inchessett of pumps was ready for work, and sinking was resumed with one sett of pumps 18 inches in diameter in No. 1 pit, and one sett 24 inches in diameter in No. 2 pit;[…]
