Its leaky roof rested on ten-foot-high walls that were originally constructed as a sandwich: vertical rock faces of rounded fieldstone on the outside with a mud-mortar/rubble stone mix on the inside.

But there was, in fact, a very substantial stone wall that ... on the rock honors Charles Hazlett, commander of Hazlett’s battery, who was killed during the fighting on Little Round Top.

A fascinating find deep in the Baltic Sea is stirring up fresh questions about Europe’s prehistoric past. Researchers have ...

“These folks would build [stone] walls to their specification. They would use the old farmers' walls and build nicer-looking walls out of them, [or] use rock that came from a quarry ...

Stone walls can be found here and there in other states, but only in New England are they nearly ubiquitous. That’s due to a regionally unique combination of hard crystalline bedrock, glacial soils ...

Anyone who has skimmed stones on a lake or on the sea knows that the flattest round ... a heavy rock will not manage to surpass Kurt Steiner's record for the most skips of a skimming stone ...