ROMAN PURBECK STONE

Database of the Roman Purbeck limestone industry

© Copyright John Palmer. This is work in progress. Please use this link to send me comments and suggestions.

Subdivisions of the database

Conventions

Each item usually describes an artefact or a group of artefacts from a single site. Some that give summary information about many artefacts are placed in the section Reviews.

In distribution-maps, filled triangles show findspots of Purbeck Marble objects, open triangles other Purbeck limestone, question-marks doubtful objects. Coastal outlines are from NOAA.

The public version of this database is a copy of a fuller version which I keep for my own use. For publication, I have to omit (a) some pictures, for lack of permission from the copyright holder, (b) some personal data about individuals who have been very helpful to me, (c) some sensitive information about particular archaeological sites. If a link in the public database doesn't work (gives "404: page not found"), this is likely to be because it refers to something of this sort.

Illustrations, other than those in the text, will be displayed by most browsers in a separate window. So will ancient texts, some plans or maps, and the guide to my system of measuring stone mortars.

Possible attributes for each item

Abbreviations

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