Name Location Construction Distinctive Materials

date Characteristics

The Great wall of China 770 – 476 BC The Great Wall is rammed earth
China not a continuous and wood
line: there are side
walls, circular brick
walls, parallel
walls, and sections
with no wall 
The Berlin Wall Germany 1949-1961 The 27-mile barbed wire and
portion of the cinder blocks
barrier separating
Berlin into east concrete walls
and west
consisted of two
concrete walls
between which
was a “death
strip” up to 160
yards wide that
contained
hundreds of
watchtowers,
miles of anti-
vehicle trenches,
guard dog runs,
floodlights and
trip-wire machine
guns
Hadrians wall England 112 AD Its signature Limestones and
feature was a dolomite
continuous curtain
wall of stone or
turf, but in front
was a ditch and
sometimes other
obstacles. Along
the line of the
Wall
Wall of stone Croatia 1700-1990 bc Stone to Mali Limestone
Stone, Blocks
and is in the shape
of an irregular
pentangle. It was
completed in the
15th century,
 along with its 40
towers (20 of
which have
survived) and 5
fortresses.
Western wall Jerusalem 19 bc The stones of the Quarried stone of
wall are chiseled massive size
in
a way that is
characteristic of
the construction
during the times