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Definition of Fieldstones

1. fieldstone [n] - See also: fieldstone

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fieldstones

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Literary usage of Fieldstones

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: Topography and Architecture by Nancy Bookidis, Ronald S. Stroud (1997)
"A partition wall 0.45 m. thick, built of fieldstones laid in clay, ... Fragments of Corinthian pan tiles are employed together with fieldstones in the ..."

2. Elements of Highway Engineering by Arthur Horace Blanchard (1915)
"fieldstones are boulders which have been cai ried along by glaciers and are ... fieldstones. fieldstones frequently make a satisfactory material for light ..."

3. The Chrysokamino Metallurgy Workshop and Its Territory by Philip P. Betancourt (2006)
"Comments: A terraced area north of the modern road has poorly preserved walls of carbonate fieldstones. The extent of this system cannot be measured ..."

4. The Architectural Review (1919)
"These steps are of heavy flagstones broken to the required shape, and the retaining wall is of fieldstones, laid without mortar. The stairs have simple iron ..."

5. Text-book on Highway Engineering by Arthur Horace Blanchard, Henry Bernardin Drowne (1913)
"fieldstones are boulders which have been carried along by the glacier and are found mainly in those districts which were covered by this great ice sheet. ..."

6. Trilogy of Shennan: Hagre and the Barbarian Wars by Richard Allen Saare (2007)
"Though it had been buried under several tons of fieldstones it could still pose a threat. ... Each basket was filled with a dozen fieldstones the size of a ..."

7. The Sanctuary of Athena Nike in Athens: Architectural Stages and Chronology by Ira S. Mark (1993)
"We may gauge from these views that the oblique block had horizontal dimensions of at least 0.50 X 0.30 m. and was rather thin, for two fieldstones project ..."

8. The Temple of Apollo Bassitas by Frederick A. Cooper (1996)
"... that have fractured from the local limestone rather than the boulders and fieldstones employed on the west. This design, alike for the north, east, ..."

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