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A four-mile (7km) dry stone wall is being built to help a major new commuter road blend into its Cotswolds surroundings.
Whatever the shape and size of your plot, a stone garden wall will boost its style credentials. From smart, contemporary cladding, majestic gabions or rustic dry stone walls there are endless ...
A wall on New Road, in Selsey near Stroud, has been replaced with a wooden fence after it collapsed. Credit: LDRS Villagers are "up in arms" over an historic dry stone wall which was replaced with ...
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 ...
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 his stepson, Liam Brady, are ‘planting’ a stone tree into the ...
Until today, dry stone wall construction has involved vast amounts of manual labour. A multidisciplinary team of ETH Zurich researchers developed a method of using an autonomous excavator to construct ...
The longest continuous length of dry stone wall in Ireland and Britain is The Mourne Wall in Co Down, which is 35km. The inscription on the Unesco Representative List of the Intangible Cultural ...
That’s the demise of any craft,” Wooley said. 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 ...