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Dry Stone Wall Builder

Also known as Suhozid · pared de piedra seca · muri a secco

Dry Stone Wall Builder: photograph by antonioskara
Photo: antonioskara, CC BY-SA 3.0, source on Wikimedia Commons

Pick irregular stones from a pile and fit them into a wall with no mortar, keeping courses staggered and stable under a gravity simulation.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Croatia, Spain, Italy.

Origins

A living tradition passed from person to person; it is not tied to a single dated origin. It belongs to the cultural world of Mediterranean.

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