Walls, fences and stone piles
In flat areas, the stone extracted from clearing the land was used to construct walls or fences to mark property boundaries, separate cultivated land from paths, or protect the land from the wind.
They were generally low two sided structures and varied in width. In some cases, they consisted of a single row of stones stacked on their sides. In areas where stone was abundant, it is obvious by the thickness of these walls that they were not intended for property delimitation, instead, they were built for nothing more than the storage of surplus stone. Note that a pile of carefully stacked stones, taking on the form of a wall, actually occupies less space than a random pile does.
These “organized” piles might be found in a corner of the field and adopt a variety of shapes.
It is worth mentioning that in La Fatarella, when one speaks of “marges”; they are not only referring to retaining walls, but to any of these stone wall constructions, regardless of their function.