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Stone mason
Dry stone waller

Stone mason

Most stone masons seem to have experience of cutting stone in a quarry as well as patiently, lovingly fashioning it into a whole building, or a fireplace or a gravestone to stand in a country churchyard.

Robert Wetherill, stone mason Robert Wetherill, monumental and general stone mason at work on a piece of freestone, a type of sandstone, in his yard at Danby, Eskdale in the Cleveland hills.
Stone mason tools The principle tools of the stone mason's trade.

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Dry stone waller

Dry stone walling is one of the toughest and most basic of country crafts. Handed down from father to son the skill and hard work have preserved a dominant feature of the Yorkshire Dales Landscape.

Geoff Lund, dry stone waller Geoff Lund at work on the foundation for a limestone wall on Wasser Hill above Conistone in Wharfdale.
Geoff Lund, dry stone waller Geoff Lund, a waller since school, places a topstone to finish a section of wall.

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