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  2. Stonemasonry - Wikipedia

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    Stonemasonry is the craft of shaping and arranging stones, often together with mortar and even the ancient lime mortar, to wall or cover formed structures. The basic tools, methods and skills of the banker mason have existed as a trade for thousands of years. It is one of the oldest activities and professions in human history.

  3. 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] A certain amount of binding is obtained through the use of carefully selected interlocking stones.

  4. Charmstone - Wikipedia

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    Scottish charm-stones are typically large smooth rounded pieces of rock crystal or other forms of quartz.They were credited with healing or quasi-magical powers, often through water that the charmstone had been dipped into, which was considered efficacious against various ills of both humans and farm animals.

  5. Baalbek Stones - Wikipedia

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    The blocks known as the Trilithon (the upper of the two largest courses of stone pictured) in the Temple of Jupiter Baal. The Trilithon (Greek: Τρίλιθον), also called the Three Stones, is a group of three horizontally lying giant stones that form part of the podium of the Temple of Jupiter Baal at Baalbek. The location of the megalithic ...

  6. Bannerstone - Wikipedia

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    Bannerstones are artifacts usually found in the Eastern United States that are characterized by a centered hole in a symmetrically shaped carved or ground stone. The holes are typically 1 ⁄ 4" to 3 ⁄ 4" in diameter and extend through a raised portion centered in the stone. They usually are bored all the way through but some have been found ...

  7. Archaeologists Found a Mysterious Ancient Stone That Could ...

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    A stone slab covered with 123 hieroglyphic cartouches discovered at an ancient Maya pyramid in Mexico might not be a treasure map to a lost city, but it comes incredibly close.. The discovery ...

  8. List of runestones - Wikipedia

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    A small number of runestones may date to the late medieval to early modern period, such as the Fámjin stone (Faroe Islands), dated to the Reformation period. Modern runestones (as imitations or forgeries of Viking Age runestones) began to be produced in the 19th century Viking Revival .

  9. Cyclopean masonry - Wikipedia

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    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. The boulders typically seem unworked, but some may have been worked roughly with a hammer and the gaps between ...

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