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Adam Cramer and Kenny Anderson are just a few of the artisans in this region who still craft stone walls without mortar. It’s a skill that takes time and effort to become proficient, the men agreed.

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 ...

John Shaw-Rimmington started building dry stone walls after the stones themselves complained to him. It was the 1980s, and he was living in Ontario, working for clients who wanted decorative stone ...

Some find solace in the physical feel of stone. Some claim it speaks to them. The permanence of stone is legendary: A sword cannot be drawn from it; a mythical Greek monarch defines futility by ...

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 ...