Items that strictly do not belong in an inventory of Purbeck
limestone, but are included as reminders.
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Roman quarries in non-Purbeck stone-
- name Kimmeridge cementstone
- cat quarry area
- site Kimmeridge Clay (South Dorset)
- source Allen and Fulford 2004
- desc Allen and Fulford state on petrological grounds that a widespread
class of tesserae used in mosaic over the South of Britain,
and particularly at Silchester
Ins. XIX, 1st/2nd cent., is in fact
dolomitic cementstone from the Kimmeridge Clay formation, found in
south Dorset and outcropping notably as stone bands in Kimmeridge Bay.
The mudstone of Norden
is also from this source according to the authors.
- loc various
- subst dolomitic cementstone from the Kimmeridge Clay formation
- date in general 1st--2nd cent. AD
-
- name Lake Farm Roman quarry
- cat quarry
- site Lake Farm, corner of Lake Farm Roman Fort scheduled ancient monument, 1988
- publ Watkins DR 1988
- desc `Adjoining field revealed intensive Roman activity ...
irregular `stepped' features interpreted as Roman quarrying, probably
for roads within the fort ... (not in Purbeck nor for limestone, JP) There
were also several large pits up to 2.5m deep'
- subst Tertiary
-
- name Cirencester, The Querns
- cat quarry (in Gt Oolite)
- site Cirencester, The Querns
- publ
McWhirr et al. 1982 p.31ff
- desc The Querns district (quarries), in Great Oolite (Cotswold
stone). Used for 2 military tombstones (see RIB)
and for Classicianus monument.
RIB 105 at Cirencester,
RIB 151 at Bath, both refer to a sculptor
Sulinus. Stone was principal building material in Cirencester: little tile
found except in hypocausts.
- desc Top of quarry fill in Area I revealed 3 shallow features filled
with dark brown stone loam containing finds that gave an approx TAQ of
350-360AD for completed filling of the quarry. The quarry itself was found
in areas I and II as an apparently continuous face; in both areas the quarried
area had been backfilled with a homogeneous layer of yellow/brown clay matrix,
introduced into the quarry from above, working back from the quarry face,
as shown by the tip lines. This homogeneous layer was deposited in a
continuous operation; it was possibly obtained by clearing other areas for
quarrying. There were burials within the backfilling, and many frags of
human bone, and a neonatal burial apparently inserted during the
filling rather than buried afterwards. Backfilling contained sherds of
a 1/2C glass bottle.
- desc Quarry face 1.0-1.5m high. The bedding and jointing of the
Great Oolite makes it easy to extract in workable blocks (cf. Portland).
Cylindrical pick or wedge marks were found (20 examples) about 1cm diam.
and 30-35cm spacing where grouped. Working face was stepped (as typical
in this sort of stone)
- subst Great Oolite
- date None of the pottery in the quarry-fill need be later than
C3. This is the only clue to the date of the working
-
- name Cirencester, The Querns 2
- cat Quarry (in Gt Oolite)
- site Cirencester, future Ambulance Station site (The Querns)
- publ
McWhirr et al. 1982 p.37ff
- desc signs of a road, prob. late C3. Quarry waste had been
dumped onto the surface of the white limestone. Spur roads into the
quarries. All mounds in the area may be regarded as quarry spoil unless
shown to be otherwise. Area of Roman quarry perhaps 4ha. Level of stone
reduced by quarrying from 116-125m OD to 111.3m OD.
- desc Area SE of amphitheatre is dominated by the steep side of
a hollow 10m high. Strongly supposed to be a quarry going back to Roman
times. No proved evidence of tunnelling for limestone in
Roman times. Many tunnels and shafts in ``The Bumpy Fields'' near
Querns Hill found 1975; local stories of tunnels in the area from
`the bull ring' (amphitheatre) to the town, the church, Lord Bathurst's
house. A date 1836 is written on the roof of one (showing the tunnel
was open then). Great variation in the depth of limestone rubble
beneath the surface suggests past quarrying. Burials found in the
loose fill (easy to dig, pleased Roman gravediggers).
-
- name Street Farm, Latton, Wilts
- cat quarry, gravel
- site Street Farm, Latton, Wilts, 1996
- grid SU 090 954 to 093 952
- source Anon. 1998
- desc Excavation in advance of roadbuilding. 8 quarry pots of poss. Roman
date representing gravel extraction for repair of Ermin Street.
- subst gravel
-
- name Court Farm, Latton, Wilts
- cat quarry, gravel
- site Court Farm, Latton, Wilts, 1996
- grid SU 096 951
- source Anon. 1998
- desc A 20 by 500m area was dug inside a scheduled ancient monument
(cropmark complex, works of Neolithic to modern date); varying density
of quarry pitting found, majority thought to be of RB date.
- subst probably gravel
-
- cat quarry (in Trougham Tilestone)
- site Manless Town, 1.5km SW of Brimpsfield, Glos
- grid SO 928 116
- source RB in 1975, Britannia 6 (1975)
- desc Roman quarry site at deserted mediaeval village;
filling contained no med. material and no Roman pottery later than 3rd cent.
Rock is a flaggy limestone called Trougham Tilestone,
suitable for roof tiles
- cont Mr B Rawes
-
- cat quarry (in Chalk)
- site Gadebridge Park, Herts
- publ Neal DS 1974 p.83ff
- desc Chalk quarries. 19 coins were found in the quarry and
a number of gritstone pestles, mortaria and other pottery, 2 coins of
Allectus and 14 coins with latest date 341-8.
- date inferred that quarry was working by c.300-325
and was filled in by c.350
-
-
-
- name Folkestone quern factory
- site Folkestone, East Wear Bay
- grid TR 24 37 approx.
- source Frere, Hassall and Tomlin 1989 p.325
- publ Keller PT 1989
- desc Greensand quernstone manufacture from a quarry in the
Folkestone Beds (uppermost member of the Lower Greensand)
- desc Adrian Weston is studying this site (2004) and though most of the
querns are clearly Greensand,
he has found one upper quernstone of shelly limestone,
340mm diam., 135mm thick
(Illus.,
© Adrian Weston, by his permission).
This stone contains shells around 10mm across on the upper surface
and (on the under surface, not seen in the picture) shells up to
35mm long.
Not PM because the shells are too large.
Natural History Museum identify
it as Greensand "bone layer", containing Oyster, teeth of sharks
Hybodus and fish Lepidotes, possibly from
Hythe Beds rather than Folkestone Beds (but still Lower Greensand).
- subst Lower Greensand
- date late Iron Age to Romano-British
- cont Adrian Weston
-
- name Lodsworth quarry, Sussex
- cat quarry
- site Lodsworth, W Sussex
- publ Peacock DPS 1987
- desc Study of querns of greensand-like facies leading to finding
of the quarry that produced them, which was used from ? 400BC-400AD.
Distribution of the produced querns W to Gussage, N to Desborough,
E to E Sussex (one in Kent); greater concentration Owslebury, Danebury,
Fishbourne etc. Saddle quern production was DIY, rotaries industrial
(finished in the quarry).
- subst greensand or similar
-
-
- cat review
- site Unspecific
- publ Blagg 1990 p.4
- desc ancient quarries are difficult to pinpoint from inspection
of the products, for more recent working may have cut back the face to
a point where the lithology is different from that found by the ancients
Purbeck stone artefacts of non-Roman date-
-
- name Bronze Age PM cist
- site Langton Matravers, Lynchard field, east of Quarr Farm
- grid SY 9920 7965
- source Beavis p.203
- source National Trust SMR
- publ Calkin JB 1959a, p.116-7
- publ Calkin JB 1959b, p.116-7
- desc NT site number 112,210
- desc Bronze Age burial cist.
``Originally 2 slabs approx 3ft by 4ft and 3ft by 4 1/4ft ..
assumed that these and others not found formed a cist ..
no evidence of a barrow [no burial found] .. [Their] weathered condition ..
suggests that they were naturally separated from the parent rock .. ''
[ Might have been obtained within 150yd
(at Wilkswood NT site)
or might have been transported 3 miles from Peveril Pt ]
- subst Calkin: ``both slabs are PM''
- date by grave-goods (shale button, flint knife), early 2nd millenium BC
- comment see Romano-British cist burials found at Studland
1952 and
1955
-
- name Aardenburg Mortar (mediaeval)
- site Aardenburg, Netherlands
- publ Dunning GC 1966 p.205
- desc 1. Mortar of PM, Fig.12. About 1/3 of a stone mortar found in
Aardenburg, exact spot not known .. `stone mortars may be regarded as a
sideline of the [architectural PM] industry .. mortars made of PM are known
at 38 sites in England (map, fig 13) .. several in London and E Anglia coast,
and [single ones] as far N as Lincoln and Byland Abbey, Yorks .. [examining
the map, I can see it is nothing like the distribution of Roman mortars in the
1948 map] .. The only other mortar
of PM as yet known on the Continent was found in one of the hamlets near
Ostende which were destroyed in the tempest of 1334, now in the Musée
d'Histoire Local, Ostende'
- subst grey PM containing Viviparus
- date Dunning: Mediaeval (but it is not clear why earlier date is excluded)
-
- site Purbeck beds NOI
- publ - Dunning GC 1966
- desc Fragment of mediaeval lugged stone mortar from Purbeck.
About 40 Purbeck mortars (?sc. mediaeval) are known showing both
inland and Channel trade
-
- name Corfe Castle
- site Corfe Castle
- grid SY 969 823
- source Dorset SMR
(prob. following RCHM)
- desc 11th cent. inner ward curtain wall is made from irreg. blocks of stone,
many waterworn [from beach]. Similar stonework in C11 Constable's House at
Christchurch Castle, which includes waterworn Purbeck Burr and PM. The old
hall, in the W bailey of Corfe Castle, is constructed of slates of limestone
in a herringbone pattern [cf. Colliton
Park townhouse, underpinning]. However the doorsteps of C11 windows
at Corfe are ashlar. C12 keep is Burr. PM used at Corfe from C13; Burr
still used till early C17; Purbeck-Portland not used till late C16/C17.
(Castle destroyed 1642+).
- subst PL
- date C11-17
- comment ?RCHM suggests Burr = beurre, cf.
Bristow's
`Soft Burr'
-
-
- name Old Sarum mediaeval PM mortar
- site Old Sarum, c.1964
- source Musty and Rahtz 1964 p.142
(contribution by GC Dunning)
- desc A mortar of PM from the east suburb, about 1/4 of rim and side survive,
grey PM, red-toned at top, diam.7 1/4in at rim, height 5in.
- subst PM
- date C13 AD (Dunning)
-
- name Corfe Castle East St. mortars
- site Corfe Castle, 65 East Street, 1999
- grid SY 963 815 approx
- source Bowd CD 1999
- desc Bowd: 30 "Burr-stone" ("coarse shelly limestone") mortars found built
into the walls during renovations; 13 inspected, rest already reused
in the walls. Mostly unfinished or broken,
probably wasters from local production. Illustrated.
- loc One (the only complete one)
built into the wall of the house as a feature;
one given to Corfe Castle Museum;
one to Langton Matravers Museum;
one to Bournemouth University, Dept. of Conservation Sciences;
others reused in the building or unknown.
- subst PL (Broken Shell Limestone)
- date apparently 15th-18th cent.
-
-
- name 18th cent. mortars
- site various
- source Reg Saville
- desc Large mortar (over 60cm diam.) set in wooden surround, has
two projecting lugs as lifting handles
Non-Purbeck roofing material of Roman date-
- name Leicestershire roof slates
- site Groby, Leicestershire
- source
David Ramsey,
Groby, Leics, email May 2002
- desc `Leicestershire Roman roof slates tend to be much smaller but
equally as weighty as the limestone slate slabs pro rata. Leicestershire
slates measure 24 cm long by 19.5 cm wide up to 30 cm long by 25 cm wide.
Apart from those prepared for the lower eaves all are hung in a overlapping
diamond formation. The two main quarry areas being (a) between Groby and
Markfield and (b) Swithland, north Leicestershire.'
Illus.
- subst True metamorphic slate of Precambrian deposition
- date Roman period
- cont David Ramsey
-
- name Stonesfield Slates
- site Oxfordshire
- source
David
Ramsey, Groby, Leics, email May 2002
- publ Aston MA 1974
- desc Ramsey: `[Aston says] there are three
types of `slates' from Stonesfield: (1) brown calcareous sandstone. (2)
grey or slightly oolitic calcareous sandstone and (3) blue grey oolitic
limestone'.
Illus.
- subst sandstone or limestone
- date Roman period
- cont David Ramsey
-
- name Box villa
- site Box, Wilts, c.1904
- grid ST 824 686
- source Brakspear H 1904
- publ Hurst, Dartnall
and Fisher 1987
- desc Brakspear p.244: `Roofs .. 2 sorts of tiles .. one [in] great quantities .. thick
Pennant (from near Bristol) .. stones of elongated hexagonal form of 2 sizes,
with a pinhole [sic] at one end.'
- desc ibid.: tesserae all local stone or
ceramic. The local stone is a finegrained hard straight-splitting
limestone, light cream to white, some light grey or pinkish due to heating,
apparently the same stone as also used at Cirencester and Silchester;
Geol. Mus. say it is either White Lias or else Great Oolite.
- desc Hurst et al.: stone used throughout is local Great Oolite or
`Bath stone'
- subst Pennant stone (roofing), Lias or Gt Oolite (tesserae)
-
- name Atworth villa, Wilts
- site Atworth, Wilts, c.1940
- grid ST 856 665 (Erskine)
- source Mellor and Goodchild 1940
- publ Erskine J 1970
- publ Anon. 1972,
Wilts Archaeological Register
- desc Mellor and Goodchild p.67, roof:
Stones of a hard purplish sandstone of Carboniferous age
which outcrops near Bristol and is called Pennant or Keynsham stone.
Measurements vary, average 14 by 10in, rough oblong hexagons about 1in thick,
average weight 9lb. Fixed by an iron nail to the battens so that they hang
with the more pointed end, the edges of which are usually bevelled, downwards
(plate XI). The nail hole, which appears to have been punched [sic] through,
is at the opposite end usually in the middle line, but in some instances well
to the side and then the stone must have been supported in a straight line
by its neighbours. Nails in a good state of preservation, 2.5--3in long
with large flat square or circular heads, and their shanks are square and
taper to a point. Floors: only spare tesserae found, of finegrained
Bath limestone found locally but also used at Cirencester and Silchester;
see Box villa.
- desc Register 1972: Material from 1937-8 excavation (above) including
tiles of stone and clay. Further excavations by JGP Erskine
- loc Devizes Museum 7.1971 (tiles)
- subst Pennant sandstone
- date villa probably after 200AD to late C4 or early C5
-
- name Colerne villa
- site Colerne Park, Wilts, 1954
- source Mellor AS 1954
- desc Roofing tiles: No pottery tiles. Many pieces of sandstone tiles, the
lower edges ending in obtuse points, similar to the type ... in several
neighbouring villas e.g. Atworth. Material very likely
Old Red Sandstone from Abbots Leigh near Bristol.
- subst (Old Red) sandstone
-
- name Durrington Walls, Wilts
- site Durrington Walls, near Larkhill, Wilts, 1970
- source Wainwright 1971 p.83
- desc 3 fragments of perforated roofing tile, substance not stated
- date C3-4
-
- name Draycot Farm, Vale of Pewsey
- site Draycot Farm, Wilcot, Wilts, c.1970
- grid SU 1460 6320
- source Thompson NP 1971
- desc A few sherds of RB date and tile fragments of Pennant sandstone
- subst Pennant sandstone
- date Romano-British
-
- name Aldbourne Roman building
- site Stock Lane, Aldbourne, Wilts, c.1972
- grid SU 2378 7410
- source Anon. 1972,
Wilts Archaeological Register
- desc Site of substantial building in arable field, marked with sandstone
roofing tiles ... and C2-4 pottery
- subst Sandstone
- date C2-4
- cont B Phillips
-
- name Russley Park Roman building
- site Bishopstone (North), Russley Park, 1973
- grid SU 2732 8014
- source Anon. 1973,
Wilts Archaeological Register
- desc Substantial building ... oolite roofing tiles
- subst Oolite
-
- name Meonstoke gable
- site Meonstoke, Hants.
- publ King A 1996
- desc The gable-end of a Romano-British aisled building was discovered
fallen flat (all but the lowest part),
so that the shapes of windows and (more important for us)
the pitch of the roof could be observed.
The pitch of the upper roof was found to be near to 45deg.
King suggests that the lower roofs, below the clerestory line,
which were below the lower edge of the fallen section of the gable,
were of lower pitch, for many ceramic roof-tiles were found,
which King supposes to be unsuitable for a pitch as steep as 45deg.
He supposes on the contrary that the 45deg. roof was
in nail-fixed stone slates.
For a reconstruction of a stone-slated roof at such a pitch see
Colliton Park townhouse, Dorchester;
for evidence of stone-slated roofs at a much lower pitch, see
Dewlish villa.
-
- name Sherborne Pinford Lane roofing
- site Near Pinford Lane, Sherborne
- grid ST 6565 1710
- source Colin Wallace,
April 2005
- publ Farrar 1955b p.145-6
- desc Lias roof slates on cobbled floor similar to another with late
Roman sherds on it. Also roofing slates of local stone at Sherborne
Castle.
- subst Lias
- date presumed Roman
Tesserae of chalk, etc.-
- name Norden Chalk tesserae
- site Norden, Corfe Castle
- source Thomas C in
Sunter and Woodward 1987 p.36
- desc About 1500-2000 tesserae and numerous
chips from their manufacture, in a late C1 layer interpreted as a workfloor;
16 others in C2-C4 layers, which could be survivals from the C1 workfloor
or later products. 40 sawn slabs of chalk, for walls and/or floors;
11 triangular, 2 with curved edges, 1 marked with 2 intersecting arcs as
if for cutting, etc.
- desc The chalk is hard and white, similar to Beerstone but not
from that source, probably very local.
-
- name Applegates chalk tesserae
- site Dorchester, Applegates
- publ Jones ME 1988
- desc White tesserae from Roman Dorchester: shown by scanning
electron microscopy to be Chalk probably from Stonehill Down, Purbeck.
For excav. report ``see Draper, forthcoming''
Non-Purbeck stone articles of Roman date-
- name Windmill Knap quernstone
- site Windmill Knap,
Knitson Farm, 1969
- grid SZ 0092 8005 approx
- source Mark Helfer, pers. comm. 2004-06-28
- publ Brown PA 1969
- publ Bowd 2005
- desc Brown 1969: "part of a lower quernstone of ferruginous sandstone of
Romano-British domestic type, with rimless complete perforation."
RAH Farrar adds: "From Mr Brown's sketch, about 16in diam. and
2 1/2in thick, with distinctly convex upper surface and concave
underside."
- desc Surviving part is half the disc (semicircular).
JP thought it might be an upper stone,
but could not inspect the convex side, as it is mortared in, convex side down.
This is Bowd's item 300d.
Bowd also calls it an upper stone, and gives dimensions 46cm diameter,
10cm thickness, central hole 9cm diameter, and presents a drawing.
Photos (by JP):
Elevation,
Top view.
- loc Mortared into a garden wall at Knitson Old Farmhouse
- subst Brown sandy stone
- date Roman
- cont Mark Helfer
-
- name Knitson Farm Barn quern
- site Found built into the wall of a barn (built c.1800) at Knitson Farm
by the owner
- grid SZ 005 807
- source Mark Helfer, pers. comm. 2004-06-28
- publ Bowd 2005
- desc Half a rotary quern upper stone, in local stone (Wealden Quartz Grit).
Similar in shape to the Windmill Knap Roman
quernstone, except that the non-convex side is flat.
No recess for handle on the convex side; presumably it was in the other
half or not yet made.
This is Bowd's item 300c.
Bowd remarks that the central hole was never finished,
gives dimensions 38cm diameter, 9cm thickness,
and presents a drawing. Photo (by JP):
Top view.
- loc Part of a garden wall at Knitson Old Farmhouse, not mortared in.
- subst Wealden Quartz Grit
- date unknown, likely to be Roman
- cont Mark Helfer
-
- name Colliton Park limestone ovens
- site Dorchester, Colliton Park, Library site
- publ Aitken GM and GN 1982, Excavations on the Library site
at Colliton Park, Dorchester, PDNHAS 104 93-126
- desc Ovens 3 and 4 of Liassic limestone and flint set in
chalky mortar.
-
-
- name Wessex Court whetstones
- cat RELATED
- site Dorchester, Wessex Court (Charles St), 1989
- grid SY 6935 9045
- source DCM 1996.31.34.2, box 601, file 18: Primary finds records, Stone.
- desc Two whetstones, unpublished
- loc DCM acc. 1996.31 (finds: bays 145-149, papers: boxes 591-611, 615)
- subst unspecified
- date Roman context
-
-
- name Ower Purbeck limestone quern
- site Cleavel Point, Ower
- grid SZ 00 86
- source Sunter and Woodward 1987 p.106
- desc Complete topstone of Purbeck limestone/marble. Circular tapering
handle socket on side with second (handle?) groove on top. Similar
to example noted at Maiden Castle,
Wheeler 1943 fig.115.16.
Suggested use is crushing temper for pottery (?)
- loc DCM ?
- subst PL or PM, not clear which
- date prob. IA to Roman: may be residual in Roman layers
- comment the Maiden Castle quern is not in the database yet
- comment see also
limestone quern
in Wareham museum
-
-
- name Sutton Mandeville Bust
- site Chapel Cottage, Sutton Row, 1967
- grid ST 98 28
- source Jane Ellis, Salisbury Museum, 2006 May
- desc Bust of a man, possibly Chilmark limestone, Roman date, set in a
wall before 1900, described by C. N. Moore 1967,
later stolen from Museum
- loc LOST, SBYWM 1968.45
- subst ?limestone
- date Salisbury Museum: Roman
- cont Jane Ellis
-
-
- site Silchester
- publ Cotton MA 1947
- desc p.143: Melville RV on Building Stone. Slabs used for
bonding courses are prob. Great Oolite or Forest Marble, most convenient
source being on the Silchester-Bath road, e.g. near Chippenham. The
Ironstone is local from Bagshot Beds, a coarse sandstone with ferruginous
cement, not plentiful, not suitable for building. See also Haverfield
in VCH Hants i 271-289
-
- name Lulworth Anchor
- site Lulworth Cove c.1968
- source Farrar RAH 1970
- publ Taylor J du P 1968,
Committee for Nautical Archaeology Newsletter 2 10-12
- desc Stone anchor, 200 pounds with a single hole through the apex, found
near a small pottery `tear-bottle' of Mediterranean 100BC-100AD type.
- subst Schistose grit possibly from Brittany (Geol Mus identification)
- comment see Chapmans Pool
anchor and a curious object
at Knitson
-
- name Cricklade Roman road
- site Great Rose Lane, Cricklade, c.1972
- grid SU 1349 9264
- source Anon. 1972,
Wiltshire Archaeological Register p.174
- desc Roman road, constructed of Coral Rag, cut by a gas main trench
- subst Coral Rag
- cont B Phillips
Shelly limestones other than Purbeck-
-
Romano-British settlement sites-
Miscellaneous-
- name Langton Museum Purbeck samples
- site Isle of Purbeck
- source Coach House Museum, Langton Matravers
- desc Column of polished rock samples and list of beds:
the numbers are my own attempt to enumerate the 24 beds said (in the
Museum's recorded presentation) to be recognised by quarrymen:
Upper Purbeck: Red PM (1) Green PM (1a) Burr (2) Rag (3) Lannen Vein (4)
Upper Purbeck Rag: Royal (5) Freestone (6) Rag, Mead (7)
Middle Purbeck, Freestone: Grub `good cap to a mine, it keeps well
together' (8) Roach (9) Thornback (10)
Wetson (11) Freestone (12)
Middle Purbeck, Downs:
Laper (13) Grey bed (14) Downs Vein (15)
Lower Purbeck:
Cinder (16) Button (17) Cap (18)
Lower Purbeck, New Vein: Sky (19) 5 (or 6) bed (20) White (21) Brassy (22)
Tompson (Tombstone) (23)
- loc Coach House Museum, on display
- comment Museum open Apr-Sept, 10-12 and 2-4, exc.Sunday
tel. 01929 423168, 422218
- comment Pushman D 1995
says that the beds mined at Acton are (apparently) 7 to 12 inclusive
of the above series, i.e. Upper Building Stones
- comment Further information from this museum's display:
Quarries at: (1)
Woodyhyde
nr. Harmans Cross, green PM;
(2)down page at side of old Kingston church; (3) Quarr Farm;
examples of Burr in building: Corfe Castle, Studland and Worth
churches (C12)
examples of PL in building: 4 manor houses of which Godlingston
is one of the 2 still inhabited; workers' cottages from 1650 onward
(previously in timber)
examples of PM in building: Salisbury Cathedral 1240
export via Swanage (rather than Ower) started late C17
stone from Dancing Ledge went to make Ramsgate harbour late C18
banker = mason's workbench of stone
- cont Curator, Mr R Saville
-
- name Purchase's catalogue of stone
- site Unspecific
- publ Purchase WR 1904
- desc Catalogue of stone available c.1904:
British marbles:
PM: blocks 7-8ft long but rarely >1ft thick. 4s to 8s per cu.ft. acc.to size,
larger blocks dearer. Burt and Burt, Swanage
Bethesden or Lovelace marble, near Ashford Kent: no quotation
Petworth marble: not quarried at Petworth but at Eastbourne, Lewes, Horsham:
no quotation
Limestones:
Purbeck: 14 cu.ft per ton, rough block 1/6d per ft cube at quarry;
Purbeck-Portland: 1/3d at quarry, 1/10d delivered London: Burt and Burt
Chilmark: Trough bed [very good weight-bearing], Pinney bed, White Oolite
Wardour: Chantry bed, Garden bed
All the above 1/3d per cu ft, f.o.r. Tisbury.
All cut with a wet saw
Tisbury: no longer quarried (1904)
Portland: Whit bed (Brown bed) 1s 6d per cu ft, Base bed (White bed) 1s 7 1/2d
per cu ft, f.o.b. Portland.
-
- site Poole Harbour, south shore
- source Thomas C in
Sunter and Woodward 1987
- publ Clifton Taylor A 1972,
The pattern of English building, London
- desc Quays ?of Roman date?
-
- site Libraries
- publ Journal of Roman Studies
- comment
Dorset County Library has vols 54-59 (1964-69) only
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