Here's a photo of a stone and mortar wall. The walls are usually no taller than 4 foot and they use three rows of jagged stones along the top of the wall. You can find this style of masonry throughout the Philadelphia area. The area is riddled with glacial rock. I'm sure this is the source is the stone used in these walls. The age of this wall, I'm not sure, but the road is route 1... one of the oldest roads in the US, but the houses look no older than early 20th century. The composition was inspired by the perspective in Bill Z's Fence
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Jagged Wall
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That is a really neat shot, Gary. So, is it the same as one of those stone walls/fences that one sees in the New England countryside?
Can't say for sure... I don't live in new england. Most of the ones I've seen along fields are made without mortar. The farmer would clear out the stones from his field and as he found them would stack them along his property line. These may have been like that when the area was farmland, but when it was turned into suburbs they probably tore down the old walls and made new ones from the the old stones and mortar.
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