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Encyclopedia > Stone wall
City wall in Worms, Germany
City wall in Worms, Germany
City wall in Valence, France

1. Stone walls are a kind of masonry construction which have been made by man for thousands of years. First they were constructed by farmers and primitive people by piling loose field stones in what is called a dry stone wall, then later with the use of mortar and plaster especially in the construction of city walls, castles, and other fortifications prior to and during the Middle Ages. Image File history File links City_wall_close. ... Image File history File links City_wall_close. ... // Worms (pronounced ) is a city in the southwest of Germany. ... Image File history File links City_wall_close2. ... Image File history File links City_wall_close2. ... // Worms (pronounced ) is a city in the southwest of Germany. ... Image File history File links City_wall_close3. ... Image File history File links City_wall_close3. ... Location within France Champs de Mars and Kiosque Peynet in Valence A World War I memorial in Valence ville Valence is a commune in south-eastern France, the capital of the département of Drôme, situated on the left bank of the Rhône, 65 miles south of Lyon... Masonry in action; a Mason at work. ... Detail of a dry stone wall in the Yorkshire Dales. ... Mortar holding weathered bricks. ... Gypsum based plaster used in spray fireproofing in a low-rise industrial building in Vancouver, British Columbia. ... The defensive wall of Braşov, Romania. ... Pierrefonds Castle, France. ... Table of Fortification, from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ...



2. STONE WALLS (musical act) Stone Walls are a soft rock acoustic duo formed in 2004 in New York consisting of Steven Ossana, formerly of Rob Rule (lead guitar and vocals), and Chris Lynn (twelve string rhythm guitar and vocals). Independantly released "Stone by Stone", a full-length CD in 2006, yielding the single "Be My Girl" which bode rather well in the 2005 International Songwriting Contest (3rd round finalists out of 15,000 songs submitted from 80 countries). Known for their spot-on harmonies and exceptional live performances. 2006 Long Island Music Festival finalists. Regularly appear in CT and NYC. Additional info can be found here: www.stonewallsmusic.com


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Dry-stone wall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (722 words)
A dry-stone wall, dry-stone dyke or dry-stone hedge is a wall that is constructed from stones without any mortar to bind them together.
The wall is held up by a special construction method and by its own weight, and the stones must be carefully selected by shape to ensure that they have a large contact surface area with their neighbours and so do not slip.
Such constructions are common where large stones are plentiful (for example, in The Burren) or conditions are too harsh for hedges capable of retaining livestock to be grown as reliable field boundaries.
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