use of carefully selected interlocking stones. Dry stone construction is best known in the context of stone walls, traditionally used for the boundaries...

piling loose field stones into a dry stone wall. Later, mortar and plaster were used, especially in the construction of city walls, castles, and other...

Jimbour Dry Stone Wall is a heritage-listed stone wall at Dalby-Jandowae Road, Jimbour East, Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built...

of stones, but a great deal of stone masonry is uncoursed. Slipform stonemasonry produces a hybrid wall of reinforced concrete with a rubble stone face...

walls Defensive walls in fortifications Permanent, solid fences Retaining walls, which hold back dirt, stone, water, or noise sound Stone walls Walls...

foundations, retaining walls, dry stone walls, dams, lighthouses, and fortifications. Other terms that may be used to describe battered walls are "tapered" and...

particularly under Sapa Inca Pachacuti and his successors. Dry stone walls constructed of huge stones were built on the site, with the workers carefully cutting...

significance to its larger neighbour, Wolfe Island. The Dry Stone Walling Association of Canada (aka Dry Stone Canada) believes that Amherst Island contains the...

be built in a dry stone wall method employing small blocks or more commonly using larger stones set in the ground. When larger stones are employed, peristalith...

Belgium. A Romanesque church built of fieldstone. Dry-stone wall Earl Young (architect) Stone wall Stonemasonry Architecture Wikimedia Commons has media...