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Rubble masonry is rough, unhewn building stone set in mortar, but not laid in regular courses. It may appear as the outer surface of a wall or may fill the core of a wall which is faced with unit masonry such as brick or cut stone. Coursed rubble is wall construction with the stones roughly dressed and set in deep, approximate courses. Speckled rubble is a rubble wall with small pieces of stone sometimes called snecks filling the irregular spaces between the larger stones. GalleryCircular rubble masonry wall at Grave Circle A, Helladic cemetery of Mycenae, Greece, dating 16th century BC Rubble masonry core of the unfinished Alai Minar at Qutb Complex, India, dating ca 1316 CE. From Wikipedia under the
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