Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
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It's not great looking stuff and the stones are mostly
medium-smallish, but if I squidged it together with sufficient
mortar and made big fat posts, I'd have thought it would hold up
through sheer weight, and would look very much like the many
strange
ex-mining constructions you come across in the woods round here -
also using small crap cheap local stones.

I like that idea best.

You could adapt the dry stone wall technique of building a hollow
wall
and filling it with small stuff.

If most of the bits are small, you'd have to use some sort of
mortar
though. Then, if you leave a few cracks, you can grow wall rocket,
wallflowers, alpine wallflowers, ivy-leaved toadflax, etc, and
succulents in the tops.

But don't forget it will need a solid foundation, just as much as a
wall. Not much on that stony ground: I suppose a foot deep would be
ample. I can see it already!

--
Mike.