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2. Purbeck Marble - Wikipedia

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   There is a single example of Purbeck Marble being used during the Bronze Age, in a cist at Langton Matravers.During the Romano-British period, Purbeck Marble was used for inscriptions, architectural mouldings and veneers, mortars and pestles, and other articles.

3. List of decorative stones - Wikipedia

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   Natural stone is used as architectural stone (construction, flooring, cladding, counter tops, curbing, etc.) and as raw block and monument stone for the funerary trade. Natural stone is also used in custom stone engraving. The engraved stone can be either decorative or functional. Natural memorial stones are used as natural burial markers.

4. Dimension stone - Wikipedia

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   The stone for tiles is most commonly marble, but often is granite, and sometimes limestone, slate, or quartz-based stone. Common colors are white and light earth colors. Much of the stone for this application is produced in Italy and China. Stone monuments include tombstones, grave markers or as mausoleums. After being gangsawed into big deep ...

5. Sett (paving) - Wikipedia

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   A sett, also known as a block or Belgian block, [1] is a broadly rectangular quarried stone used in paving roads and walkways. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Formerly in widespread use, particularly on steeper streets because setts provided horses' hooves with better grip than a smooth surface, they are now encountered more usually as decorative stone paving in ...

6. Hopton Wood stone - Wikipedia

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   Buildings and structures made using Hopton Wood stone include the Houses of Parliament, [4] Westminster Abbey, the Albert Memorial, [4] Lichfield Cathedral, [4] Calke Abbey, [4] Chatsworth House [1] and Oscar Wilde's tomb. [5] In 1947 the Hopton-Wood Stone Firms Ltd commissioned a book about Hopton Wood stone, published by Fanfare press. [6]

7. List of types of limestone - Wikipedia

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   Cotswold stone – oolitic limestone used for building and roofing in the Cotswolds; Dent Marble (not a "true marble"; Crinoidal limestone) Frosterley Marble – northern England (not a "true marble") Hamstone – Building stone from Somerset; Headington stone – A limestone from Oxford; Hopton Wood stone – Type of limestone