Quarrying in Cumbria Johnson Dr DavidPaperback / softback
Quarrying in Cumbria Johnson Dr DavidPaperback / softback The exploiting of stone in Cumbria dates back to the Neolithic period when volcanic rock from the high Lakeland fells was worked to make hand…
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Quarrying in Cumbria Johnson Dr DavidPaperback / softback
The exploiting of stone in Cumbria dates back to the Neolithic period when volcanic rock from the high Lakeland fells was worked to make hand axes. The industry expanded in the Middle Ages as stone was needed for high-status buildings like castles, tower houses and monasteries as well as for bridges and, later on, for dry-stone walls and road building. In Roman times sandstone was extensively quarried for building Hadrian's Wall and forts like Carlisle.
Countless abandoned quarries exploited limestone, sandstone, flagstone, slate, granite, sands and clays and gypsum, and quarrying was a major local industry in the fells, along the west coast and on the Pennine edge. Cumbria has a wide variety of rock types that proved suitable for building and other uses, and quarry workings, large and small, can be found across the county. For many centuries, men laboured in difficult and dangerous