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--- drys:dry_stone_walling [2025/12/07 17:00] – dave
+++ drys:dry_stone_walling [2026/03/17 14:57] (current) – [What can I do?] asimong
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 ![dry-stone-walls-hillside](https://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/wp-content/uploads/dry-stone-walls-hillside.jpg)
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- Dry stone walls provide field boundaries and shelter for livestock, and they blend into the landscape beautifully because they are made of local, natural stone.
+ _Dry stone walls provide field boundaries and shelter for livestock, and they blend into the landscape beautifully because they are made of local, natural stone._
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 ![dry-stone-walls-tools](https://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/wp-content/uploads/dry-stone-walls-tools.jpg)
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- A selection of walling hammers on a section of new wall.
+ _A selection of walling hammers on a section of new wall._
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 ![dry-stone-walls-menorca](https://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/wp-content/uploads/dry-stone-walls-menorca.jpg)
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- This burial chamber with dry stone walls on the island of Menorca is around 3500 years old.
+ _This burial chamber with dry stone walls on the island of Menorca is around 3500 years old._
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 ![dry_stone_walls-training](https://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/wp-content/uploads/dry_stone_walls-training.jpg)
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- Course participants building a wall using A-frames and string.
+ _Course participants building a wall using A-frames and string._
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 ![dry-stone-walls-repairs](https://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/wp-content/uploads/dry-stone-walls-repairs.jpg)
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- Dry stone wall before and after repair.
+ _Dry stone wall before and after repair._
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-There are lots more techniques involved in building dry stone walls, such as pinning and wedging to hold stones in place, bridged joins to ensure the wall’s strength, and trimming stones to shape and size. These skills are probably best obtained by doing rather than reading, and so attending a [course](/drys/dry_stone_walling) is probably a good idea. Other features can be incorporated into walls, such as stiles for people and holes for sheepdogs; and there are other styles of wall, such as single-skinned retaining walls, and Cornish and Welsh varieties that have turf or even hedges on top of the wall.
+There are lots more techniques involved in building dry stone walls, such as pinning and wedging to hold stones in place, bridged joins to ensure the wall’s strength, and trimming stones to shape and size. These skills are probably best obtained by doing rather than reading, and so attending a course is probably a good idea. Other features can be incorporated into walls, such as stiles for people and holes for sheepdogs; and there are other styles of wall, such as single-skinned retaining walls, and Cornish and Welsh varieties that have turf or even hedges on top of the wall.
 Grants are available to farmers to build or repair dry stone walls under the [Environmental Stewardship](http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/ourwork/farming/funding/es/default.aspx) scheme. Grants vary according to location, farming activity, etc.
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-## Specialists
+## Related topics
+- [Keeping livestock](livs:livestock)
+- [Meadows, grass & pasture](mdws:meadows)
+- [Stone building](stob:stone_building)
+- [Smallholding](smho:smallholding)
+- [Sheep](shep:sheep)
+- [Fences](fenc:fences)
+- [Hedges](hedg:hedges)
+- [Gates & stiles](gate:gates)
+- [Hurdles](hrdl:hurdles)
+## Specialist curators of this topic