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Stone wandering in Ireland

Ireland has fabulous examples of stone masonry spanning many centuries. These few images only scratch the surface of what is there. The famous Rock of Cashel, shown above, is a group of 12th and 13th century structures in County...

Pennsylvania Fieldstone Buildings

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The eastern U.S., particularly southeastern Pennsylvania, has a lot of attractive 18th- and 19th-century farm houses and mills built from stone. Unlike that shown above, most of the stone used in these houses is irregular fieldstone. Although there may be others, I...

Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) Ruins

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The Anasazi, now more properly called Ancestral Puebloans, were a mysterious culture of Native Americans that lived in what is now the southwestern U.S. from the 8th to the 13th century. They built extensive stone “villages” at many locations including Mesa Verde in...