Skip to content

Stone Library

Online content for a physical construction material

  • Sedimentary
    • Limestone
    • Sandstone
  • Igneous
  • Metamorphic
  • Toggle search form

Intro: Hillend Black Dolerite (L3)

Posted on 7 March 20239 April 2025 By Elizabeth Laycock No Comments on Intro: Hillend Black Dolerite (L3)

150 x 150mm square sample of stone

Reference L3
NAME Hillend Black
TYPE Dolerite
GEOLOGY Permian/Carboniferous
COUNTY Strathclyde
COLOUR Black/charcoal grey
TEXTURE Very fine and even grained, with barely distinguishable crystals
 BLOCK SIZE LXBXH (mm) 1500x1000x1000mm
SUITABILITY Cladding, paving, kerbs, setts, monumental and engineering
 USES (1) Black Rod’s Garden, Palace of Westminster
 USES (2) Brook House, Park Lane, London
 USES (3) Royal Mile, Edinburgh
 USES (4) Shrewsbury Town Centre
Stone Names
Carboniferous, Igneous, Permian Tags:Cumbria Building Stone Atlas, Scotland Stone

Post navigation

Previous Post: Intro: Shap Granite (L1)
Next Post: Intro: Ross of Mull (L5) Scottish Granite

Related Posts

Intro: Cat Castle Sandstone (I5) Carboniferous
Upper Carboniferous. Coal Measures Carboniferous
150 x 150mm square sample of stone Intro: Florida (I6) Carboniferous
Intro: Dunhouse Buff (I1) Upper Carboniferous sandstone, Durham Carboniferous
Intro: Florida Sandstone (I6) Carboniferous
Magnesian Limestone Limestone

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Categories

  • Carboniferous
  • CitizenScience
  • Cretaceous
  • Devonian
  • eco materials
  • Igneous
  • Jurassic
  • Limestone
  • links
  • MAP
  • Metamorphic
  • Ordovician
  • Permian
  • Precambrian
  • Sandstone
  • Sedimentary
  • Silurian
  • Tertiary
  • Triassic
  • Uncategorised
  • x_examples

Archives

Recent Posts

  • Google Map
  • Stone in the Media 2025 September
  • Marmorino sample on a Cocciopesto base Q_02
  • CED11 Kilkenny Limestone
  • CED10 Avochie Granite

Recent Comments

  1. Elizabeth Laycock on Intro: Shepley H3
  2. Scott Engering on Intro: Shepley H3
  3. Scott Engering on Intro: Shap Granite (L1)
  4. Scott Engering on Intro: Shap Granite (L1)
  5. A WordPress Commenter on Stone Library Sheffield Hallam University

Copyright © 2025 Stone Library.

Powered by PressBook Masonry Dark