Not every stone wall is like the tidy, geometrically perfect type built around castles: For farmers and ordinary people, stone walls had to be “fast and cheap and strong,” Kaneko told me when ...

The electric Polestar vehicle smashed into the stone wall head-on after it collided with another car on Thames Street in Windsor, England, just before 8 a.m.

A former soldier has hung up his boots and picked up his chisel to maintain 16 miles (25.7km) of dry stone wall. Leon Fairbrother, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan during a 24-year career in the ...

The practice of dry stone wall construction in Ireland has been added to UNESCO's list of protected cultural heritages around the world. Dry stone walls are an iconic part of many Irish landscapes ...

OTSU--A 30-meter-long stone wall and a moat were unearthed at the site of the castle belonging to the 16th-century samurai general who betrayed feudal warlord Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582).

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 ...

St Mary's features around two kilometres of dry stone walling. (ABC South East SA: Liz Rymill)Barry, Glenys, and sons Robin and Ian say it is part passion, part pastime, part obsession.

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.

With more than 5,000 miles of dry stone wall in the Yorkshire Dales alone, they have shaped the region’s agricultural heritage and link today’s farmers directly to their ancestors.

Dry-stane dykers of all abilities gathered at Kelton Mains near Castle Douglas at the weekend when their skills were put to good use rebuilding a section of dyke.

Nov 27, 2023 12:08:00 Autonomous excavator successfully builds a stone wall 6 meters high and 65 meters long. Researchers at . ETH Zurich have developed a method to build 6m-tall dry stone walls ...

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.