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    Dry stone, sometimes called drystack or, in Scotland, drystane, is a building method by which structures are constructed from stones without any mortar...
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    Types of dry stone hut include: Clochán, associated with the south-western Irish seaboard Mitato, found in Greece, especially on the mountains of Crete...
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    Jimbour Dry Stone Wall is a heritage-listed stone wall at Dalby-Jandowae Road, Jimbour East, Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built...
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    particularly under Sapa Inca Pachacuti and his successors. Dry stone walls constructed of huge stones were built on the site, with the workers carefully cutting...
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    Trullo (category Stone houses)
    A trullo (plural, trulli) is a traditional Apulian dry stone hut with a conical roof. Their style of construction is specific to the Itria Valley, in...
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    significance to its larger neighbour, Wolfe Island. The Dry Stone Walling Association of Canada (aka Dry Stone Canada) believes that Amherst Island contains the...
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    dry stone masonry once they reached an altitude where the sea waves would no longer weather them. Later the base steps were replaced with dry-stone paths...
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    site. Machu Picchu was built in the classical Inca style, with polished dry-stone walls. Its three primary structures are the Temple of the Sun, the Temple...
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    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...
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    Stonemasonry (redirect from Stone masonry)
    The term is antonymous to "ashlar". Dry stone. Stone walls built without mortar, using the shape of the stones, compression, and friction for stability...
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