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Polygonal masonry is a technique of stone construction. True polygonal masonry is a technique wherein the visible surfaces of the stones are dressed with straight sides or joints, giving the block the appearance of a polygon.[1]

This technique is found throughout the world and sometimes corresponds to the less technical category of Cyclopean masonry.[2]

Armenia

Saint Hripsime Church, 618, with later alterations, an important early church

Bolivia

Bosnia

These are the remains of the outer walls of Daorson, as seen in 2013.

Brazil

Bulgaria

California

Canada

Hatley Castle, garden side

China

The "xi shi" stone bridge
In the submerged city of Shicheng

Chile

Ahu Vinapú

Connecticut

The tomb before the addition of a second wing
Memorial Quadrangle Gate

Crimea

The Ruins of Mangup (Doros): Capital of the Crimean Goths
The modern day ruins of Mangup (Doros): Capital of the Crimean Goths.

Easter Island

Ecuador

Ecuador ingapirca inca ruins
Ecuador ingapirca inca ruins
  • La Maná

Finland

A part of the wall of the Bomarsund Fortress

France

  • Beaugency City hall
City hall

Germany

Georgia

Greece

Section of polygonal wall at Delphi, behind a pillar from the Athenian Stoa.

Hungary

India

Indonesia

Italy

View of a polygonal masonry wall at Rusellae, Italy
Section of the ancient polygonal masonry wall of Amelia, Italy (ancient Ameria)
A detail of the polygonal masonry bastion flanking the Porta Maggiore.
Velia, Porta Rosa
  • The so-called Porta Rosa of the ancient city of Velia employs a variant of the technique known as Lesbian masonry.[1]

In Italy it is particularly indicative of the region of Latium, but it occurs also in Etruria, Lucania, Samnium, and Umbria; scholars including Giuseppe Lugli have carried out studies of the technique.[3][4] Some notable sites that have fortification walls built in this technique include Norba, Signia, Alatri, Boiano, Circeo, Cosa, Alba Fucens, Palestrina, and Terracina.[5]

Japan

Outer Moat and Osaka Business Park
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Naha Shuri Castle50s3s4500
Oka Castle

Latvia

Daugavpils Fortress

Malta

Mexico

Montenegro

Entrance to Stützpunkt Grabovac at the fort's rear

Morocco

New Jersey

Harsimus stem wall jeh

Peru

Sacsayhuamán, Cusco, Perú, 2015-07-31, DD 27.JPG
Sacsayhuamán, Cusco, Perú, 2015-07-31, DD 27
Coricancha, Cusco, Perú, 2015-07-31, DD 68.JPG
Coricancha, Cusco, Perú, 2015-07-31, DD 68
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Chinchero Archaeological site - overview
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Pumacocha Archaeological site - wall

Philippines

Portugal

Romania

The statue of Negru Vodă
The statue of Negru Vodă
Curtea de Argeș Cathedral in a 1880 engraving
Iulia Hasdeu Castle

Russia

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RUS-2016-Aerial-SPB-Forts of Kronstadt (Fort Alexander I)
Königsberg Castle, 1895

Spain

Roman wall at Olèrdola
Roman wall at Olèrdola

Sudan

Sweden

Syria

Texas

the Alamo

Alamo 1838 Maverick

Thailand

Turkey

Selimiye Kışlası
Library

United Kingdom

References

  1. ^ a b G.R.H. Wright (23 November 2009). Ancient Building Technology, Volume 3: Construction (2 Vols). BRILL. pp. 154–. ISBN 90-04-17745-0.
  2. ^ Carmelo G. Malacrino (2010). Constructing the Ancient World: Architectural Techniques of the Greeks and Romans. Getty Publications. pp. 97–. ISBN 978-1-60606-016-2.
  3. ^ Frank, T. 1924. "Roman buildings of the Republic: an attempt to date them from their materials." MAAR 3.
  4. ^ Giuseppe Lugli (1957). La Tecnica Edilizia Romana Con Particolare Riguardo a Roma E Lazio: Testo. 1. Johnson Reprint.
  5. ^ Jeffrey Alan Becker (2007). The Building Blocks of Empire: Civic Architecture, Central Italy, and the Roman Middle Republic. ProQuest. pp. 109–. ISBN 978-0-549-55847-7.
  • P. Gros. 1996. L'architecture romaine: du début du IIIe siècle av. J.-C. à la fin du Haut-Empire. 2 v. Paris: Picard.
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