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 construct ...
Adam Cramer and Kenny Anderson are just a few of the artisans in this region who still craft stone walls without mortar. It’s a skill that takes time and effort to become proficient, the men agreed.
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 ...
Artisans around the world are ditching the mortar and embracing an old method of building rock walls Clachtoll Broch, a Scottish dwelling with dry stone walls, was built at least 2,000 years ago. Its ...
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 ...
Researchers taught an autonomous excavator to construct dry stone walls itself using boulders weighing several tons and demolition debris. Until today, dry stone wall construction has involved vast ...
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 ...
The sound of a light rain mixed with the sound of rocks scraping and clanging together. A group of women were moving about, some kneeling and repositioning stones, others working to find smaller rocks ...
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 ...