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Quarrying in the Yorkshire Pennines

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Quarrying in the Yorkshire Pennines

By David Johnson

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About the book

From Roman times, rocks have been worked for a wide range of purposes, initially as building stone. As time passed, more and more stone was needed for high-status buildings like castles, halls and monasteries, as well as for bridges, dry stone walls and road-building. The Yorkshire Pennines have a varied geology with many rock types that proved suitable for building and other uses, and the landscape is dotted with old quarry workings, large and small, some of which can be linked to the medieval ...Show more

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9781445653679

Publisher

Amberley Publishing

Published year

2016

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1

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Quarrying in the Yorkshire Pennines

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Paperback

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