Basalt Quarrying on the Clee Hills, Shropshire - Image 1

£43.16

Lulu Basalt Quarrying on the Clee Hills, Shropshire

Name: Basalt Quarrying on the Clee Hills, Shropshire
Brand: Lulu
Price: 43.63 GBP
Availability: InStock

Industrial Revolution

Price History & Forecast

Last 46 days • 46 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 46 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £43 (31 days, 67.4%)

Price range: £43 - £44

Price levels: 2 different prices over 46 days

Description

Thomas Telford, the Scottish road and bridge builder, knew enough about rocks to recommend that particularly hard basalt, locally known as dhu stone, which was found on the top of the Clee Hills in Shropshire would make a hard wearing and long lasting road material. The problem was extracting and transporting it. Railway engineers on the Shrewsbury to Ludlow railway successfully found investors and formed the Dhu Stone Quarry Company to construct a railway from Ludlow to Bitterley, a village just below Titterstone Clee. Geological surveys were undertaken and by 1867 an agreement had been signed with the landowner to open a quarry, labourers were employed to dig out the basalt and cut it into cobbles, the blocks used to pave roads, pavements, tramways, pedestrian areas, station forecourts, docks, wharves etc. An incline railway was constructed from Clee Hill on which trucks laden with stone were lowered to a goods yard at Bitterley and then transferred to the mainline to be sold in most metropolitan cities across England and Wales. Other companies were formed to exploit the basalt found on Clee Hill, Magpie Hill, Abdon Burf and Clee Burf. Millions of tons have been extracted and it is still being worked today. Bernard O'Connor's 'Basalt quarrying on the Clee Hills' investigates the geology, archaeology, social ane economic history of this industry.

Product Specifications

Brand: Lulu
Format: paperback
ASIN: 1447864514
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe > Great Britain > Industrial Revolution
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 January 2023
Listed Since: 19 March 2023

Barcode

No barcode data available

Lulu Basalt Quarrying on the Clee Hills, Shropshire

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Kerbside Geology in Reading, Berkshire: Aspects of historical archaeology in the expanding town, c.1840-1914: 619 (British Archaeological Reports British Series)

Quarrying Opencast and Alluvial Mining

CRC Press - Soil and Rock Construction Materials Book

Rock Mechanics and Engineering: Prediction and Control of Landslides and Geological Disasters (Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering)

Fabric of the Frontier: Prospection, Use, and Re-Use of Stone from Hadrian’s Wall

Logging the Chalk

Roman quarrying and stone supply on the periphery - Southern England: A geological study of first-century funerary monuments and monumental ... Archaeological Reports British Series)

Oil Shales: A Complete Story

Old Oswestry Hillfort and its Landscape: Ancient Past, Uncertain Future

Tutbury: 'A Castle Firmly Built': Archaeological and historical investigations at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire: 546 (British Archaeological Reports British Series)

Carrstone in Norfolk Buildings: Distribution, use, associates and influences: 371 (British Archaeological Reports British Series)

From Quarries to Rock-cut Sites: Echoes of Stone Crafting

Engineering Rock Mass Classification: Tunnelling, Foundations and Landslides

Grinding and Milling: A study of Romano-British rotary querns and millstones made from Old Red Sandstone: 409 (British Archaeological Reports British Series)

Engineering Geology

Slate as Dimension Stone: Origin, Standards, Properties, Mining and Deposits (Springer Mineralogy)

Slate as Dimension Stone: Origin, Standards, Properties, Mining and Deposits (Springer Mineralogy)

The Lewisian: Britain’s oldest rocks

Rock Grouting: with Emphasis on Dam Sites

Structural Geology and Rock Engineering

Ragstone to Riches: Imperial Estates, metalla and the Roman military in the south east of Britain during the occupation: 638 (British Archaeological Reports British Series)

Northern Rock: The Use of Egglestone Marble for Monuments in Medieval England: 480 (British Archaeological Reports British Series)

Structural Geology And Rock Engineering

Geology of Construction Materials (Topics in the Earth Sciences)