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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...

entire field system made from dry stone walls, since covered in peat, has been carbon-dated to 3800 BC. The cyclopean walls of the acropolis of Mycenae, Greece...

solid fences Retaining walls, which hold back dirt, stone, water, or noise sound Stone walls Walls in buildings that form a fundamental part of the superstructure...

well it was built, and how the walls were arranged so that one commanded the other. And in these walls there were stones so large and mighty that it tired...

The term is antonymous to "ashlar". Dry stone. Stone walls built without mortar, using the shape of the stones, compression, and friction for stability...

as city walls or town walls, although there were also walls, such as the Great Wall of China, Walls of Benin, Hadrian's Wall, Anastasian Wall, and the...

(now Rajgir, Bihar, India), cyclopean walls can be seen. Dry stone Megalithic architecture Stone masonry Stone wall Fletcher, Banister (1905). A History...

The Walls of Constantinople (Turkish: Konstantinopolis Surları; Greek: Τείχη της Κωνσταντινουπόλης) are a series of defensive stone walls that have surrounded...

large stone walls had been built in Mycenaean Greece, such as the ancient site of Mycenae (known for the huge stone blocks of its 'cyclopean' walls). A...

The walls of Lucca are a series of stone, brick, and earthwork fortifications surrounding the central city of Lucca in Tuscany, Italy. They are among the...

building in Michigan, United States A fieldstone wall enclosing a Pennsylvania barnyard Dry-stone walls built of fieldstones on Inisheer, Ireland Pavilion...

regions. The stone walls in the Mpumalanga region and specifically the Blaauboschkraal ruins are built in a uniform structure and made from stone local to...

The Walls of Dubrovnik (Croatian: Dubrovačke gradske zidine) are a series of defensive stone walls surrounding the city of Dubrovnik in southern Croatia...

match each other exactly, it has a superficial similarity to some Inca stone walls in South America. Two types of houses are known from the past: hare paenga...

Bowness-on-Solway in the west of what is now northern England, it was a stone wall with large ditches in front and behind, stretching across the whole width...

core with its stone walls encloses an area approximately 1.5 by 0.5 kilometres (0.93 mi × 0.31 mi) and it contains 92 artificial islets—stone and coral fill...

The Walls of Ston (Croatian: Stonske zidine) are a series of defensive stone walls, originally more than 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) long, that surrounded and...

Stonewall in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Stonewall or Stone wall may refer to: Stone wall, a kind of masonry construction Stonewalling, engaging in...

distances. Along the way, runners inevitably had to jump streams and low stone walls separating estates. The modern athletics event originates from a two-mile...

castles, like their European cousins, featured massive stone walls and large moats. However, walls were restricted to the castle compound itself; they were...