Your garden wants bones as much as blossoms. Edges that hold their line when the winter rain turns paths to porridge, and a place for birds and beetles to tuck in. A dry‑stone wall built from natural ...

A dry stone wall is a purposeful pile of rocks, held in place by friction and gravity rather than mortar. It’s one of the oldest building methods known to mankind, used over millennia to construct ...

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Researchers taught an autonomous excavator to construct dry stone walls itself using boulders weighing several tons and demolition debris. Until today, dry stone wall construction has involved vast ...

Traditional dry stone wall construction typically involves extensive manual labor, but this innovative approach leverages the capabilities of the autonomous excavator named HEAP. The research team, ...

HOLYOKE — When Mike Dugre, 69, began considering his legacy, he went back 400 million years for inspiration. That’s how old some of the granite is that he used to build the dry stone wall on his ...

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Artisans around the world are ditching the mortar and embracing an old method of building rock walls Clachtoll Broch, a Scottish dwelling with dry stone walls, was built at least 2,000 years ago. Its ...