Dry-stone walls are a design classic, so beautiful they look good even when photographed in black and white. Judging by the amount of RHS medals they've won in show gardens recently, they're not going ...
Artisans around the world are ditching the mortar and embracing an old method of building rock walls Clachtoll Broch, a Scottish dwelling with dry stone walls, was built at least 2,000 years ago. Its ...
Watch a beginner and you can tell within two minutes if they've got a knack for it, says Richard Ingles. It takes a certain kind of eye-brain co-ordination, dry stone walling: you need to be able to ...
A body representing dry stone wall enthusiasts has called for heritage listing of the country's most significant constructions, before they end up as piles of rubble. Dry Stone Walls Association of ...
Once, in what proved to be a rite of passage, I followed writer and cartographer Tim Robinson as he led a tortuous way across the field walls on Aran – the "labyrinth" of his first great book on the ...
A four-mile (7km) dry stone wall is being built to help a major new commuter road blend into its Cotswolds surroundings. Twelve stonemasons have already spent a year constructing the wall ...