What is a dry stone wall? A dry stone wall is built with only one ingredient - natural stone. There’s no mortar gluing everything together or backup made of concrete blocks. How does it stay up? You ...

ETH Zurich researchers taught an autonomous excavator to construct dry stone walls itself using boulders weighing several tonnes and demolition debris. * dry stone wall construction has involved vast ...

>> IF THERE IS ONE THING THAT NEW ENGLAND IS GOOD AT GROWING, IT'S ROCKS. AND IF THOSE ROCKS ARE LUCKY, THEY JUST MIGHT TURN INTO STONES. >> THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A ROCK AND A STONE IS THAT A ROCK IS ...

Stone walls have purpose, personality and permanence. Historically, their purpose was to contain livestock, define boundaries and serve as convenient storage for the many rocks removed from fields to ...

Ireland’s practice of Dry Stone Construction has officially been inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The inscription was officially announced ...

Villagers are furious after a penny pinching council replaced a historic dry stone wall with a wooden fence in a bid to save money. Residents in the Cotswolds village of Selsley say Gloucestershire ...