“I HAVE A HAMMER, a bucket and a string line. You use your hands and your eyes to build dry stone walls,” says world renowned stone mason Andrew Loudon. The Brit, who has worked with British ...

In fact, this is a workshop space in the middle of a field at the Somerset estate of The Newt, where dry-stone wallers Tom Trouton and ... rounds off the edges with a few sharp knocks of the hammer ...

A four-mile (7km) dry stone wall is being built to help a major new commuter road blend into its Cotswolds surroundings.

“Before you just had a hammer to do the work, but there are more tools nowadays to work with, the world’s your oyster. “And it’s not just about restoring old dry stone walls. “You can do ...

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?

uses a hammer and chisel to shape limestone rock ... Masons and volunteers work on a dry stone wall at McConnell Springs as part of the Dry Stone Conservancy 24-hour walling marathon in September ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. 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 ...