Section 02 · 5 entries
Dressed Stone
Quarry to quoin to wall. The stone travels the shortest distance it can, and only the parts that must be true are dressed true.
Every entry in Dressed Stone
- Quarry to quoinGranite split from the outcrop the building stands on, dressed square only where it has to be — corners, jambs, lintels — and left rough everywhere else.
- Wedge slotsLines of cut slots on an outcrop, the clearest evidence of how it was split.
- The lintelOne stone spanning an opening, and how its length sets the window.
- Mortar or noneWhere lime was used and where the wall simply stands on friction and weight.
- RoofingStone slabs where they could be got, tile where they could not.
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