What is "unmortared"

Usage examples of "unmortared".

Long-abandoned enclosures were visible here and there, the low unmortared stone walls hinting of more affluent times in the past.

This done, he came out again to the wall, which was built of unmortared stones, pulled one out without trouble, deposited the watch and the silver he had stolen in the cavity, and replaced the stone.

Vicarage along the narrow, winding lanes with their high walls of unmortared stone.

Lautumiae had started existence several hundred years earlier as a quarry in the side of the Arx of the Capitol, and now was a haphazard collection of unmortared stone blocks which huddled in the cliff side just beyond the lower Forum Romanum.

It was a miserable hut of unmortared stones from the hill, the gaps stuffed with earth and turf, and the roof of heather thatch.

They knew how to cut, brace and move it, yet lived in unmortared, poorly chinked shanties.

They were made from unmortared stone, and they bulged in odd places, giving the whole structure the appearance of a haphazard pile of rocks.

It was like a dry well, built of the same unmortared stone as the rest of the keep, and it was an effective cell for a prisoner.

At the far end, Beatrice and Osric were feeding doves which fluttered around a round-topped dovecote built of unmortared stone.

A winding flagstone pathway began opposite the front door, the gate marked by rough pillars of unmortared stone wrapped in vines and runners.

He practically had a kitten after finding out that the grouping of unmortared walls and stone buildings right over there was the famous Stone House.

The only stone was in the base, loose-packed and unmortared, atop which stood elaborate pagodas of wood, stucco, and tile.

Four tumbledown one-room houses of unmortared stone surrounded an empty sheepfold and a well.

The walls were rough unmortared stone ten feet high, with a wooden catwalk inside the battlements.

Ser Amory had no ladders, but the holdfast walls were rough-cut and unmortared, easy to climb, and there seemed to be no end to the foes.