Building with stone and earth: Part 1
Practical Action
This article was originally produced for the Appropriate Technology Journal Vol.
24 No 2. September 1997 by Richard Tufnell, a dry stone mason with many years
experience of dry stone.
Richard Tufnell
Construction World-wide.
100 Mill Street, Ottery St Mary,
Devon, EX11 1AF
United Kingdom
E-mail: drystoneuk@aol.com
Web: http://www.drystone.org/
The artist, Bill Holmes, is also a mason.
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