Dry Stone Construction
Buildings constructed of stone held together without mortar or similar. The stones may be "worked" or "rough". "Walls" not currently or originally part of a building are excluded.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Al-Faw | "Tapered structures - These structures consist of three dry-stone walls forming an empty triangle as the head, attached to which is a long tail of the dry-stone wall varying in length from one up to seventy metres. (...) More than 552 tapered structures have been recorded within the nominated property." (AB Ev) | |
| Ancient villages of Northern Syria | "The vestiges include dry stone protective walls that bear witness to the agricultural land division systems of the Roman era." (Talayotic Menorca Nomination file, p. 351) | |
| Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn | ||
| Battir | Dry-stone terrace walls (AB ev) | |
| Biblical Tells | ||
| Causses and Cévennes | farmhouses | |
| Chavin | ||
| Chief Roi Mata's Domain | ||
| Cuzco | ||
| Dilmun Burial Mounds | "Early and Late Type Mounds (...) are regularly-built grave chambers (...). Walls are built with a dry-stone technique and covered by capstones slabs." (AB Ev) | |
| Great Zimbabwe | "dry stone masonry walls provide insulation for each ensemble" (OUV) | |
| Hawraman/Uramanat | gardening on dry-stone terraces (AB ev) | |
| Himā Cultural area | The intensive traffic of caravans over millennia has resulted in great concentrations of archaeological surface evidence, particularly stone cairns, dry-laid stone tombs and extensive stone arrangements. (nom file p.15) | |
| Khami Ruins | "a complex series of platforms of dry-stone walled structures" (OUV) | |
| Konso | dry stone walls (AB ev) | |
| Kujataa | A number of Norse dry stone ruin structures are present (AB ev) | |
| Lake District | Features such as dry stone walls, for example, are there as a result of sheep farming. (wiki) | |
| Machu Picchu | ||
| Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley | Houses in the valley are made out of dry, local 'gathered' granite stone (AB ev) | |
| Mapungubwe | ||
| Marquesas Islands | "The property also includes archaeological sites ranging from monumental dry-stone structures to lithic sculptures and engravings" - UNESCO | |
| Mijikenda Kaya Forests | "gates of dry stone walling" (AB ev) | |
| Mycenae and Tiryns | ||
| Old City of Jerusalem | Wailing Wall, Herodian Quarter | |
| Pico Island | "This cultural landscape (...) consists of a spectacular network of spaced-out, long volcanic dry stone walls running inland from, and parallel to, the ocean shore." (Talayotic Menorca Nomination file, p. 351) | |
| Qhapaq Ñan | ||
| Rapa Nui | Rear wall of the Ahu at Vinapu | |
| Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France | Bach-Cahors section of the Chemin du Puy: One can see the large stone slabs of the Roman road between dry stone walls sometimes incorporating enormous blocks. (Nomination file) | |
| Sceilg Mhichíl | "A clear evolution of dry stone masonry techniques is evident" (OUV) | |
| Serra de Tramuntana | Walls, waterworks etc (AB ev) | |
| Southern Öland | Eketorp Castle | |
| St. Kilda | From the evaluation document "The most common traditional structure on St. Kilda is the cleit, of which about 1260 have been recorded on Hirta, distributed all over the island, and more than 170 others on the outlying islands and stacs. Cleits are small drystone structures of round-ended rectilinear form, with drystone walls and a roof of slabs covered with earth and turf." | |
| Stari Grad Plain | "Stari Grad Plain represents a comprehensive system of land use and agricultural colonisation by the Greeks, in the 4th century BC. Its land organisation system, based on geometrical parcels with dry stone wall boundaries (chora), is exemplary." (OUV) | |
| Sukur | The villages in the Sukur cultural landscape ...have their own characteristic domestic architecture. Among its features are drystone walls, used as social markers and defensive enclosures, sunken animal (principally bull) pens, granaries, and threshing floors (AB ev) | |
| Talayotic Menorca | "illustrate the evolution of the island’s dry stone building practices" (AB ev) | |
| Taputapuātea | ||
| The trulli of Alberobello | ||
| Thimlich Ohinga | ||
| Valongo Wharf | "..remains of a large building constructed of ornamented masonry in eight layers. At present, these appear as drystone walls with occasional remnants of earth sediments." (AB ev) | |
| Zagori Cultural Landscape | drystone cobbled pathways and terraces (AB ev) |
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