Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls.
Rough stone as it comes from the quarry; also, a quarryman's term for the upper fragmentary and decomposed portion of a mass of stone; brash.
A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock.
Rough walling of unsquared stone or flint. (Wood, Margaret. The English Medieval House, 414) Related terms: Castle / Rubble, Coursed
It is a term applied to dimension stone which is used for building purposes, chiefly walls and foundations, and consisting of irregularly shaped pieces, partly trimmed or squared, usually with one split or finished face, and selected and specified with a size range.
Uncut stone and brick used as random fill between two masonry walls.
A random mixture of rocks and mortar, often used to fill the space between inner and outer faces of walls. See also mortar. To Index.
Stone construction using irregular stones imbedded in mortar.
Fill; unsquared stone not laid in courses.
Rough, mainly untrimmed, walling stone; walls or copings characterised by such stone.
the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
Irregularly shaped pieces of stone, typically used for rough construction. Field stones are often used for rubble.
Rough, irregular-shaped stone.
rounded rock 65-300mm in diameter, sometimes also called cobbles.
Rough fragments of broken stone either naturally formed or quarried; used in masonry.
Undressed broken stone used in construction
Masonry construction using stones of irregular shape and size.
A product term applied to dimensional stone used for building purposes, chiefly walls and foundations, and consisting of irregularly shaped pieces, partly trimmed or squared, generally with one split or finished face, and selected and specified within a size range.
Rough, irregular stone fragments used in construction of a wall or wall surface. A random rubble wall has discontinuous courses and may include smaller garrets, small stones used to wedge larger ones into position or fill gaps. A coursed rubble wall is more organized and built to a level course at various intervals. A squared rubble wall is built of roughly squared stones of varying size which are brought to level courses every third of fourth stone.
Rough, irregular fragments of rock or concrete.
Stones that are only roughly shaped with hammer and chisel if shaped at all.
1. Roughly broken quarry stone. 2. Rough broken stones or bricks used to fill in courses of walls or for other filling;
Uncut stone found in fields or as it comes from a quarry. Often used for dry-laid walls. Home Improvement Encyclopedia
Pieces of brick or stone left over after the destruction of an old structure.
Rubble is broken stone, of irregular size and shape. This word is closely connected in derivation with "rubbish", which was formerly also applied to what we now call "rubble". "Rubble-work" is a name applied to several species of masonry.
