fieldstone wall
Gathered rock partition
A fieldstone wall is a wall built from stones gathered from fields rather than quarried—the rocks that farmers cleared from land to make it tillable.
These walls are characteristic of New England and other rocky agricultural regions, where they served as property boundaries and livestock barriers.
The irregular shapes of the stones, fitted together without mortar, give fieldstone walls their distinctive rustic appearance: The old fieldstone wall ran along the edge of the pasture.
- mortarGrinding bowl or binder
- rusticRural and unrefined
- boundaryLine marking a limit
- property lineLegal land boundary
- propertySomething owned or inherent
moss · lichen · cobble · rubble · New England · Robert Frost · pasture · sheep pasture · farm · weathered · gray · granite · limestone · hedge · split rail · barrier · colonial · ancient
fieldstone wallconcrete wall
Rigid masonry partition
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