Is it a barrier or something else? Mostly they are used as fences and walls for cars, but walkers and bikers can pass through (there is enough space between the stones in the row). One additional usage is the blocking of parking on grass and greenfields.
Typical (but very long - 262 m) example of stone row is here X-GIS 2.0 [qMG8oc] (58.240056, 22.660399) and a shorter one is here X-GIS 2.0 [tcaVuQAS] (59.45047, 24.992501). There are a lot of this kind of stone rows in Estonia and I bet all around the world as well.
This kind of stone row is not yet a fence (barrier=fence) or wall (barrier=wall). Also the typical Estonian kiviaed (barrier=wall + material=stone + wall=dry_stone + height=0.5) does not apply here.
None of the suggested uses here does not seem to apply - Key:barrier - OpenStreetMap Wiki
The closest is barrier=block Tag:barrier=block - OpenStreetMap Wiki but it is meant more for a single or a couple of concrete|stone blocks in the middle of the road, not in parallel to the roads. If barrier=block is used, then tens (for the first example hundred) nodes should be drawn in one place.
We have this feature in very active use - Tag:natural=tree_row - OpenStreetMap Wiki and maybe it is time for a new similar tag barrier=stone_row?
Taginfo database barrier | Keys | OpenStreetMap Taginfo shows that in addition to the common use of documented Key:barrier - OpenStreetMap Wiki tags there is nothing similar to this subject. However there is very marginal use of stone_row and row_of_stones.
If we introduce a new tag, then what is the chance that the renderers start using and rendering it?
There is a similar discussion in German here Erledigt: barrier=stone_row - #7 by Rogehm and this discussion ended without a result.
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Ce sujet de discussion accompagne la publication sur https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/how-do-you-map-stone-rows-along-the-roads/100347