Mineral
Limestone
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A sedimentary rock quarried widely across England, especially along the belt of Jurassic stone from Dorset to Lincolnshire. Good limestone could be cut into fine building blocks ('freestone') and carved; poorer stone went into rubble walling or was burned to make lime. For their greatest buildings, such as Canterbury Cathedral and the Tower of London, the Normans also imported pale Caen stone from Normandy by sea.
Sources: canterbury-archaeology.org.uk · historicengland.org.uk
Made by
- Quarry stone
Used to make
- Burn lime
- Make a stone hammer
- Cut a hand quern
- Dress a stone anvil
- Cut a millstone
Used to build
- Bloomery
- Forge
- Lime kiln
- Bole hearth
- Timber bridge
- Made road, one mile
- Saltern
- Oil press
- Tar kiln
- Foundry
- Glassworks
- Alum works
- Ore hearth
- Cupellation hearth
- Blowing house