The abandoned fieldstone walls of New England are every bit as iconic to the region as lobster pots, town greens, sap buckets and fall foliage. They seem to be everywhere – a latticework of dry, ...

Stone walls have purpose, personality and permanence. Historically, their purpose was to contain livestock, define boundaries and serve as convenient storage for the many rocks removed from fields to ...

There are hundreds of stone walls in Lyme. Stone walls in east Concord. State geologist Rick Chormann and driving force behind the New Hampshire Stone Wall Project looks over a LIDAR readout on the ...

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 ...

How stone salls became prevalent in New England. Stroll through the woods of New England and you’re bound to come across long stretches of stone walls. The historic walls function as more than a ...