dry-stone walls
Stacked without cement
Dry-stone walls are walls built by stacking stones without mortar, relying instead on careful fitting and the weight of the stones themselves for stability.
Common in rural Britain and Ireland, they serve as field boundaries and livestock barriers: The dry-stone walls crisscrossing the Yorkshire moors have stood for centuries.
Building them is a traditional craft requiring skill in selecting and placing stones.
- terracingCutting slopes into steps
- graniteIgneous rock, quartz-rich
- microclimatesLocalized atmospheric conditions
- fieldstoneUncut natural building stones
- rough hewnRoughly shaped, unpolished
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