Civilizations from Stone Age Scotland to the eighth-century Maya to 13th-century African empires have used dry stone walling ...

Stone retaining walls add elegance to your lawn while stabilizing sloped terrain. If you're worried about the cost, here's ...

A four-mile (7km) dry stone wall is being built to help a major new commuter road blend into its Cotswolds surroundings.

Drystone walls, an iconic feature of rural Ireland, are surprisingly satisfying to make. Isn’t that all ancient history, just one stone after another? Yes, and wonderfully so, says the ...

HOLYOKE — When Mike Dugre, 69, began considering his legacy, he went back 400 million years for inspiration. That’s how old some of the granite is that he used to build the dry stone wall on ...

To build a 20 foot (6 meter) and 213 ft (65 m) long dry-stone wall as part of a park where the landscape was digitally planned, and the earth autonomously excavated.

A Forestville landscape designer loves the look durability and sustainability of stone walls built without mortar and able to withstand the test of time. When: July 29 to Aug.4 Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p ...

Aged 10, he made his first dry-stone wall from shillet (a form of slate), when, keen to make a den on the far side of a steep slope, he cut a pathway through the turf with a pickaxe and shored it up ...

Plus, Walther points out, dry stone walls, as primitive as they sound, can have remarkable longevity. "Some dry stone walls on Earth have endured for thousands of years," Walther said.

A dry stone wall is a purposeful pile of rocks, held in place by friction and gravity rather than mortar. It’s one of the oldest building methods known to mankind, used over millennia to ...

From real or composite stone cladding, local dry-stone walling or neatly hewn and processed blocks, each material will add its own character and can be used in many creative ways.

Masons and volunteers work on a dry stone wall at McConnell Springs as part of the Dry Stone Conservancy 24-hour walling marathon in September 2024, one of the nonprofit’s most popular events.