For Tufnell dry stone masonry is aesthetic, ecologically sound and creates a sense of personal perspective about the world we live in. "For me a major benefit of dry stone walling is that there is ...

I’ve done a couple of bridges. Anything you can make out of masonry, you can do the same with dry stone. How green is dry stone walling? Potentially very green. Most of the walls I build are fie ...

Gerrow is practicing a craft called dry-laid stone masonry that goes back to the early 1800s in Central Kentucky. “It is a lot like a puzzle, sort of like a free-form puzzle, I guess.

Seth Thomas, an instructor at the Dry Stone Conservancy, shapes limestone during a workshop in Jessamine County on Nov. 23, 2024. Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com Don Hopper pivoted over ...

Dry stone masonry—a technique dating back thousands of years—is being used to help restore the rocky terraces that have enabled agricultural activity in communities across Italy. How those ...

to advance the dry stone masonry craft, and to create a center for training and expertise nationwide. The Conservancy has conducted training and restoration projects for National Park Service ...

"I think anybody who comes into dry stone walling, it's helpful if you ... However, he says jazz and masonry have something fundamental in common, and points to a musical practice known as ...

The aim of the project is to create a digital archive designed as a repository resource for the conservation, transfer and dissemination of dry-stone masonry knowledge and practices. More so ...

The passages are roughly 1m wide and 1.5m high. The walls are constructed of dry stone masonry and the roof comprises large flat stone lintels spanning between the walls. Although souterrains are ...