dry-stone
Britishadjective
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About 30 million sheep inhabit Britain’s pastures, but its vast network of hand-built, dry-stone walls—there are 20,000 miles of them in Yorkshire alone—ceased to require upkeep after the invention of electric fences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
A multidisciplinary team of ETH Zurich researchers developed a method of using an autonomous excavator to construct a dry-stone wall that is six metres high and sixty-five metres long.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2023
Pat's speciality is dry-stone walling, and he's never short of tasks.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2022
The first time they entered Shush’s ancient synagogue, a monumental dry-stone structure on the edge of a fig orchard, it was full of livestock.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2022
Dand had quickened his pace when he too saw the three black silhouettes above, and met his mistress within two yards of the dry-stone walling.
From Border Ghost Stories by Howard Pease
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