drystone wall
Mortarless rock barrier
A drystone wall is a wall built by stacking stones without mortar, relying on careful placement and the weight of the stones to hold together.
Common in rural Britain and Ireland, these walls have divided fields and marked boundaries for centuries: The sheep grazed along the drystone wall.
Also called a dry stone wall.
- fieldstoneUncut natural building stones
- rubbleBroken building fragments
- copingManaging under strain
- hedgerowLinear shrub boundary
- boundaryLine marking a limit
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construction method
drystone wallbrick wall
Stacked masonry partition
concrete wall · glass wall · metal fence · wooden fence · steel barrier
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