dry-stone

The dry-stone retaining walls are still in place and almost 120 years old.

He is also thought to have constructed many of the dry-stone walls in the garden.

I drove away from the farm and pulled up my car in the lee of a dry-stone wall.

A dry-stone wall method is used to ensure free drainage.

Sometimes, dry-stone walls were used instead of the bank.

Dry-stone walling – an art that can't be allowed to die out.

It was built in 7th century and is a classic example of dry-stone corbelling.

The dry-stone wall on the farther side looked solid and uncompromising.

The causeway seems likely to have been used until the construction of a dry-stone wall along its centre line in the 19th or 20th century.

When we reached a crossroads I parked in a gateway, behind a dry-stone wall.

Dry-stone walling is somewhat similar work done without the use of mortar.

They face landslides and dry-stone walls tumbling down the hills.

The feeble screaming stopped abruptly as she reached the opening in the dry-stone wall.

Even the dry-stone walls are made of the dark purplish gritstone.

You can wander for a morning through countryside carved neatly by dry-stone walls.

Dry-stone walls have been left in place wherever possible to reflect the course's previous use as farmland.

He glanced out over the dry-stone wall to Thirlmere.

If there was a cool breeze I would sometimes find them squatting on the lee side of a dry-stone wall.

Most of the structure is lined with beautifully built dry-stone walling.

It is protected by a dry-stone wall and some yew trees, which lean away from the wind.

Contact with a dry-stone wall, a telegraph pole or a traffic sign is usually fatal.

There are very few dry-stone walls on Orkney today that could match the ones we have uncovered here.

There was the dry-stone wall, of course, but that was hardly a full-time occupation.

Dry-stone walls and elegant Colonial mansions are other dominant features.

More on this type of levee can be found in the article on dry-stone walls.