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  2. Dry stone - Wikipedia

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    Dry stone walls in the Yorkshire Dales, England. Dry stone, sometimes called drystack or, in Scotland, drystane, is a building method by which structures are constructed from stones without any mortar to bind them together. [1]

  3. Desert kite - Wikipedia

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    A kite in the Aravah near Kibbutz Samar. Desert kites (Arabic: مصائد صحراوية, romanized: maṣāʾid ṣaḥrāwiyya, lit. 'desert traps') are dry stone wall structures found in Southwest Asia (Middle East, but also North Africa, Central Asia and Arabia), which were first discovered from the air during the 1920s.

  4. Stone wall - Wikipedia

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    The first stone walls were constructed by farmers and primitive people by piling loose field stones into a dry stone wall. Later, mortar and plaster were used, especially in the construction of city walls, castles, and other fortifications before and during the Middle Ages. These stone walls are spread throughout the world in different forms.

  5. Polygonal masonry - Wikipedia

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    Polygonal masonry is a technique of stone wall construction. True polygonal masonry is a technique wherein the visible surfaces of the stones are dressed with straight sides or joints, giving the block the appearance of a polygon.

  6. Mourne Wall - Wikipedia

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    The Mourne Wall at the summit of Slieve Donard, where a trig point stands upon the summit tower. The wall was crafted from natural granite stone using traditional dry stone walling techniques. On average the wall is about 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) high and 0.8 to 0.9 m (2 ft 7 in to 2 ft 11 in) thick and is estimated to be 19.5 mi (31.4 km) long. [3]

  7. Cyclopean masonry - Wikipedia

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    Cyclopean masonry, backside of the Lion Gate, Mycenae, Greece. Cyclopean masonry is a type of stonework found in Mycenaean architecture, built with massive limestone boulders, roughly fitted together with minimal clearance between adjacent stones and with clay mortar or [1] no use of mortar.

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