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Guiting Limestone

Posted on 28 February 202323 July 2024 By Elizabeth Laycock No Comments on Guiting Limestone

 

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Stone Name Locality for past extraction of this stone (from Building Stones of England English Heritage – excel file)
Cleeve Hill Oolite Gloucestershire Buildings (https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/advice/building-stones-england/bse-excel-gloucestershire/);
Crickley Oncolite Gloucestershire Buildings (https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/advice/building-stones-england/bse-excel-gloucestershire/);
Devil’s Chimney Oolite Gloucestershire Buildings (https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/advice/building-stones-england/bse-excel-gloucestershire/);
Fiddlers Elbow Limestone Gloucestershire Buildings (https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/advice/building-stones-england/bse-excel-gloucestershire/);
Frocester Hill Oolite Gloucestershire Buildings (https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/advice/building-stones-england/bse-excel-gloucestershire/);
Lower Freestone Gloucestershire Buildings (https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/advice/building-stones-england/bse-excel-gloucestershire/);
Pea Grit Gloucestershire Buildings (https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/advice/building-stones-england/bse-excel-gloucestershire/);
White Guiting Gloucestershire Buildings (https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/advice/building-stones-england/bse-excel-gloucestershire/);
Yellow Guiting Gloucestershire Buildings (https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/advice/building-stones-england/bse-excel-gloucestershire/);

 

Building using this stone (from Building Stones of England English Heritage – excel file)
Cleeve Hill Oolite Gloucestershire Buildings (https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/advice/building-stones-england/bse-excel-gloucestershire/);
Crickley Oncolite Gloucestershire Buildings (https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/advice/building-stones-england/bse-excel-gloucestershire/);
Devil’s Chimney Oolite Gloucestershire Buildings (https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/advice/building-stones-england/bse-excel-gloucestershire/);
Fiddlers Elbow Limestone Gloucestershire Buildings (https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/advice/building-stones-england/bse-excel-gloucestershire/);
Frocester Hill Oolite Gloucestershire Buildings (https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/advice/building-stones-england/bse-excel-gloucestershire/);
Lower Freestone Gloucestershire Buildings (https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/advice/building-stones-england/bse-excel-gloucestershire/);
Pea Grit Gloucestershire Buildings (https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/advice/building-stones-england/bse-excel-gloucestershire/);
White Guiting Gloucestershire Buildings (https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/advice/building-stones-england/bse-excel-gloucestershire/);
Yellow Guiting Gloucestershire Buildings (https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/advice/building-stones-england/bse-excel-gloucestershire/);

 

Stone Name Building Stones of England (English Heritage Regional Stone Atlases)
Lower Freestone Gloucestershire stones (https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/building-stones-england-gloucestershire/bse-gloucestershire/);

 

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Further reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathonian

Peter Doyle(2008)  England’s Heritage in Stone. English Stone Forum. London South Bank University.January 2008 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318406002_England’s_Heritage_in_Stone

https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?pub=CLCL

https://www.stonefed.org.uk/index.php?page=guiting-gold

https://jqgroup.co.uk/products/guiting-cream-block-limestone/

https://jqgroup.co.uk/products/guiting-gold-block-limestone/

https://jqgroup.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/guiting-gold-data-sheet..pdf

https://www.stonecontact.com/guiting-limestone/s306

https://www.stonespecialist.com/news/stones-quarries/guiting-quarry-marks-another-stepping-stone-growth-johnston-quarry-group

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guiting_Power

 

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