Companies that use concrete can reliably calculate the strength of their walls, but it’s nearly impossible to estimate the engineered strength of any particular dry stone wall.

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 ...

Dry stone construction came to be used to build walls in Northern Europe many centuries ago, and today rock walls are still prevalent in Ireland and Scotland, most often used as field boundaries.

NEEDHAM, Mass. — Established in southern Vermont in 2010, the Stone Trust ’s mission is to preserve and advance the art and craft of dry stonewalling. They do this through an expanding program ...

ETH Zurich researchers taught an autonomous excavator to construct dry stone walls itself using boulders weighing several tonnes and demolition debris.