What is "drystone"

Usage examples of "drystone".

Where the foothills gave way to pastureland, the varicosed lines formed by drystone walls were all that marked one field from another.

The mist had rolled down from the moors and the higher fells to spread across the meadows like a mantle of gray lace, partially obscuring the trees and the drystone walls and the cottages nestling in the folds of the fields.

It bisected another drystone wall, and beyond that she could see rows of cottages on either side of the path.

Rutted earth tracks ran ruler-straight between drystone walls, and the chessboard pattern seen from the pass resolved itself into thin pasture and the stubble of harvested ground.

The road had become a sort of switchback among shallow glens, and the befogged lamps showed that it was bounded by no paling or hedge or drystone dyke, but marched directly with bent and heather.

They had left the shore road and were now in a country of sheep-walks, fields of grass bounded by drystone dykes, and now and then a common bright with furze and the young sprouts of heather.

No hedge climbed the mountain, but a slate-topped drystone wall, curving with every contour, broken now and then by a stile-step low enough for men but too high for sheep.

Regina saw the gaping holes of unglazed windows, decayed roofs, fields sketched out by drystone walls but choked with weeds.

The winds whistle through gorse and heather before they move across the patchwork of fields and drystone walls which creep up the Burren hillsides.

Beyond the old tower lay the wildlandsleague after league of deeply forested hills which eventually gave way to rolling meadows, then fields in their frames of hedgerows and drystone walls.