BBC News
By Angie Brown
image copyrightRichard Love
image captionUntil now training courses have been typically held at fields where farmers have given permission
A centre is being created to train a new generation in the art of dry stone walling amid a growing interest in the technique.
The craft - also know as drystane dyking - dates back 5,000 years in Scotland. Carefully-selected interlocking stones are used to make walls without the need for any mortar to bind them together.
They were traditionally used for the boundaries of fields and churchyards, or as retaining walls for terracing, but can also be used to build towers and other structures.