By Bernie Bell. A few years ago neighbour-man Steve told us of a visit he made to Cruaday Quarry, and showed us some pics. he’d taken, this was because he knows that we like stone and bits of rusty old metal, which the quarry has in abundance! We’ve been meaning to go there, and finally […]
In 1917, German explorer Reinhard Maack discovered a group of rock paintings while surveying Brandberg Mountain in the northwestern Namibian desert. Forced to take shelter one night in a rocky outcropping, Maack awoke the next morning to find a wall of primitive rock paintings.
Believed to be 2,000 years old, the Brandberg paintings were drawn with charcoal, crushed sandstone, animal blood,…
India is home to a variety of different stones, all of which have easily made their way into our homes. Here are the best ways to use them.
Reflecting the bedrock of Stromness the drawings and sculptures by artist John Barry show an elemental beauty and energy embodying a granite landscape. The one that obsessed John was made by man, a granite quarry now closed for three generations, caught forever in the periphery of memory. Influenced by poetry, folklore and language the works […]
The monument comprises the remains of a prehistoric stone circle. The monument was originally scheduled in 1957 and was rescheduled in 1963, but the area covered by the designation did not relate accurately to the remains on the ground: the present rescheduling rectifies this.
The monument comprises four massive round-topped granite boulders, enclosing an area some 5m in diameter. They are set…
Long before Collado Villalba had a town hall, it had a rock. Known as the Piedra del Concejo, this massive granite outcrop once served as the beating heart of local decision-making, where neighbors gathered in the open air to debate land disputes, local laws, and communal concerns in a form of direct democracy that predates modern institutions.
In 1724, the town’s mayor, known as Señor Sanz,…
The Hitching Stone is a prominent landmark on the otherwise bland and gently sloping Keighley Moor in the Pennines of Yorkshire. Weighing over 1000 tonnes and 29 feet long, it is said to be the largest single boulder in the county. It is believed to be an erratic block, deposited here by glacial ice movement thousands or even millions of years ago. Being so unique for its area, it has become a…
The Esperance Stonehenge is the only full-size replica of the original Stonehenge. It appears as the original would have looked around 1950 BC. It consists of 137 stones of Esperance Pink Granite that were all quarried locally less than 1km from the stonehenge’s final resting place. The natural stone provides an energetic feel and the circular shape amplifies sound. It is a truly amazing sight to…
Utah’s Great Chamber, a sandstone alcove over 200 feet wide, is the awe-inspiring result of millions of years of wind and sand shaping rock.
The Chamber was created when erosion ate into the side of a Navajo sandstone cliff formed from dunes 180 million years ago in the Jurassic period. The key geologic factor here is "differential erosion," in which softer rock erodes quicker than the…