In the deep forest, I encounter old stone walls and the occasional stone cellar hole. A sign that someone lived and worked here deep in the forest centuries ago.

I nitially an idea conceived in 1999, from the imagination of Farndale-based dry stone waller Mark Ellis, the Dry Stone Wall Maze saw its first foundation stone placed in Dalby Forest in 2014.

If you travel northwest from southern Maine into the rugged highlands and conifer forest, stone walls disappear, because this terrain was of limited use for agriculture.

Stone walls separated the fields. After the property was abandoned, the structures were vacant for many years. Some were destroyed by arson, according to the DEM.

Gurgaon: Three-feet stone walls topped with barbed wires will be used to fence off seven forest patches, each of them under 50 acres, across the city .

That wall has just been identified, hidden in the undergrowth and moss of an Italian forest. ... 15 feet wide and 15 feet deep, and neighbored by the stone wall, Plutarch wrote.

Stone cairns, serpentine walls, earthen mounds, balance rocks, ancient spring wells, and interesting stone enclosures have been identified as potential early cultural evidence of pre-European ...