Matt Jones dry stone walling

Little repair I've just done in Doddington Ash.

A lime mortared wall I rebuilt in Chippenham last year.

Few more photos of the wall I've been building in the Cotswolds.

This is what the inside of a dry stone wall looks like. The length of most stones should be running into the wall and ideally will touch the stone coming in from the opposite face. Each stone needs to be tight against the stones either side. Any gaps are filled in with smaller pieces called harting. This ensures that there's no room for anything to move.

Bit more of the wall I'm working on in the Cotswolds.

A bit of field walling I've been working on in the Cotswolds.

Finished off rebuilding an old garden wall in Bristol yesterday that had collapsed. Was nice to work with pennant stone for a bit of a change.

The last few yards of field wall up at Hazel Manor.

A pair of stone pillars and short section of dry stone wall I built last year in Tetbury.

Just finished rebuilding a garden wall in Burrington Combe.

Another 70 yards of field wall built at Hazel Manor. Next to build a curve at the corner of the field then carry on up the other side.

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Few pictures of the wall I built up at Hazel Manor last summer.

Somerset artist Martin Bentham did this painting of Christian and I building a wall up on Mendip.

A little wall I've been working on round the edge of a paddock near Tetbury.

A field wall I've been building on the Mendips this summer. It's the most bizarrely shaped stone I've ever worked with, so trying to build in neat level courses is impossible. I think it's got tonnes of character though.

Little repair done in East Pennard churchyard today.

A little wall on the Mendips I repaired last spring.

Finished my wall in Marshfield today. Was starting to get dark by the end so the pictures may not be great.

Built a little passageway through the base of the wall so that small animals like hedgehogs can get through from field to field.

A wall I've been building in Marshfield over the last few weeks.

A little repair I did a few months ago.

Managed to work it so that this ammonite fossil was left visible on top of the wall. It lived three hundred million years ago.