Features of the Landscape: Dry Stone Walls

Round here, field and garden boundaries are marked by dry stone walls.  If you look in the background of this photograph, you’ll see them running across the hillside, curving with the contours of the land.

Constructed with no mortar of any kind, building them is a skilled job.  My friends, Eddie and Thomas (above), are both true craftsmen. Once built, the walls may stand for centuries.

Of course, this isn’t the only part of the country - or of the world - where dry stone walls exist.  But they remain a defining feature of this landscape.