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  2. Rubble masonry - Wikipedia

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    Rubble masonry or rubble stone is rough, uneven building stone not laid in regular courses. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It may fill the core of a wall which is faced with unit masonry such as brick or ashlar . Some medieval cathedral walls have outer shells of ashlar with an inner backfill of mortarless rubble and dirt.

  3. Rubble - Wikipedia

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    Rubble-work on Wyggeston's Chantry House in Leicester, built c. 1511 "Rubble-work" is a name applied to several types of masonry. [1] One kind, where the stones are loosely thrown together in a wall between boards and grouted with mortar almost like concrete, is called in Italian "muraglia di getto" and in French "bocage". [1]

  4. 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.

  5. Riprap - Wikipedia

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    Riprap (in North American English), also known as rip rap, rip-rap, shot rock, rock armour (in British English) or rubble, is human-placed rock or other material used to protect shoreline structures against scour and water, wave, or ice erosion.

  6. Rubble trench foundation - Wikipedia

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    To construct a rubble trench foundation a narrow trench is dug down below the frost line. The bottom of the trench would ideally be gently sloped to an outlet. Drainage tile, graded 1":8' to daylight, is then placed at the bottom of the trench in a bed of washed stone protected by filter fabric. The trench is then filled with either screened ...

  7. Aislaby Quarry - Wikipedia

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    The quarry workings at Aislaby are 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Whitby, [1] and were known to have been in existence by the 11th century, as the majority of Whitby Abbey was constructed of stone quarried from the area. [2] The West and East Piers at Whitby were faced with 6 tonnes (6.6 tons) blocks of Aislaby stone. [3]

  8. Rubble stone - Wikipedia

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  9. List of town walls in England and Wales - Wikipedia

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    One of Frome's most ancient structures, the Old Town Wall, runs along from Bath Street through into upper Saxonvale below Lidl, whilst the Old Slaughterhouse facade with its blocked in coach arches and mixture of dressed and rubble stone sections is architecturally of significance in assessing the surviving fabric of previous barton buildings. [39]