dry stone wall
Stacked rock fence
A dry stone wall is a wall built by stacking stones without mortar, relying on careful fitting and gravity to hold together.
Common in rural Britain and Ireland, these walls mark field boundaries and contain livestock.
The technique requires skill in selecting and placing stones so they interlock: Miles of dry stone walls crisscross the Yorkshire dales.
Craft of shaping rock
- mortarlessWithout binding compound
- artisanSkilled manual tradesperson
- handiworkHandmade work product
- heartingMarking something beloved
batter · pinning · coursing · foundation course · infill · skilled · traditional · heritage craft
Very old indeed
- CotswoldsHilly English countryside region
- Yorkshire DalesUpland park in England
- Lake DistrictNorthwest England's national park
- IrelandNorth Atlantic island republic
Scotland · UNESCO · conservation · restoration · historic · archaeological · Bronze Age · Iron Age
Confined, bordered space
- partitionBarrier separating spaces
- perimeterShape's outer edge length
- demarcationFormal boundary setting
- hedgerowLinear shrub boundary
fence line · land division · property line · paddock · territorial · border · edge · limit
stonemasonry
Craft of shaping rock
- mortarlessWithout binding compound
- artisanSkilled manual tradesperson
- handiworkHandmade work product
hearting · batter · pinning · coursing · foundation course · infill · skilled · traditional · heritage craft · apprenticeship
ancient
Very old indeed
- CotswoldsHilly English countryside region
- Yorkshire DalesUpland park in England
- Lake DistrictNorthwest England's national park
Ireland · Scotland · UNESCO · conservation · restoration · historic · archaeological · Bronze Age · Iron Age · medieval
enclosure
Confined, bordered space
- partitionBarrier separating spaces
- perimeterShape's outer edge length
- demarcationFormal boundary setting
hedgerow · fence line · land division · property line · paddock · territorial · border · edge · limit · barrier
limestone
Carbonate sedimentary rock
fieldstone · rubble · boulder · cobble · flint · basalt · schist · gritstone · flagstone · quarried
pastures
Land for grazing animals
- countrysideRural area beyond towns
- farmingCultivating land for food
- sheepWoolly farm animal
agriculture · meadows · fields · farmland · grazing · upland · moorland · fell · dale · hillside
- British Countrysidehedgerow, village, hedgerows, hamlet, moorland
- English Countrysidecottages, village green, village fete, farmhouses, country pub
- Old Craftsmasonry, carpentry, thatching, joinery, timber framing
- stoneworkmasonry, granite, capstones, limestone, carving
- garden wallsmasonry, brickwork, stonework, capstone, pillar
- Celtic Structurescairn, Celtic cross, crannog, dolmen, dun
dry stone wallconcrete wall
Rigid masonry partition
poured concrete · wooden fence · metal fence · chain-link fence · plastic barrier
stone, wall, dryer, drying, dryly, dryness, stones, stoned, stoning