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Ashlar Paving Pattern - All You Need to Know

Human civilization uses natural stones for shaping establishments right from Cave Era to Skyscraper Era in unimaginative ways by creating myriads of stone products. Ashlar is one of the great stone products evident in our prolonged history. Do You Know Everything about the Ashlar Paving Pattern? What is Ashlar? Ashlar is finely cut and worked stone used as the masonry unit. Most often, Ashlar is found in rectangular cuboid shapes and less frequently in trapezoidal shapes.  We know that Rubble Masonry uses irregularly shaped stones. Still, Ashlar Masonry uses worked stone units with minimal or rough finishes or finely dressed stones.  Ashlar in Our Civilization   Vitruvius  also had mentioned Ashlar in  opus isodomum . The  tholos tombs  of the Bronze Age   Mycenae  had used ashlar stones to construct the "beehive" dome.  Ashlar is also used in facades on  Crete , and Knossos  &  Phaistos are the best in...