Residents of a Cotswolds village are furious after a historic dry stone wall was replaced with a wooden fence. Selsey villagers are fuming about the ‘bodge job’, which reportedly cost £ ...

An annual dry stone walling competition has been called "vital" for an area's wildlife and cultural identity. Professional, ...

Students from the Calvià district of Mallorca have learned a new skill through a course on historic dry-stone walling.

The goal? To build a 20 foot (6 meter) and 213 ft (65 m) long dry-stone wall as part of a park where the landscape was digitally planned, and the earth autonomously excavated. The coolest thing ...

Stone walls last forever. And men don't ... You can readily see through these old "dry" ones where no plaster was used at all, just the powerful sleight of the hands of mountainy men who ...

When winter draws in on Antikythera, the already meagre population of the isolated Greek island shrinks to almost nothing.

An ancient Greek defensive wall from at least 2,000 years ago was uncovered near the Adriatic coast of Croatia it was ...

The art of dry stone walling concerns the know-how of making stone constructions by stacking stones upon one another, without using any other materials except sometimes dry soil. Bearers include the ...

Wind, like a fifth season, rules the tiny Sicilian island of Pantelleria. Mostly composed of perforated blue-black lava rocks ...

The wall cannot be prefabricated ... You may find that the coefficient of friction is much less than dry stone on dry stone. ~Roger Answer: This also deals with the question of transferring ...

A centre is being created to train a new generation in the art of dry stone walling amid a growing interest in the technique. The craft - also know as drystane dyking - dates back 5,000 years in ...

A skilled waller can replace three to four metres a day The environmental benefits of dry stone walls are at risk unless the government rethinks subsidy rates, it is warned. The Northumbria Dry ...