Purbeck Shop
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A Stoneworker's Story of Stone
Eric Benfield
June 2011
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9781107601352
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First published in 1940, this book is the record of a man who was born into an ancient family of stoneworkers and followed the traditional quarrying and stone-cutting in the last flourishing days of an industry since in decline. It is a first-hand account of a craft whose skill depended upon courage, traditional knowledge, strength of sinew, and a sense of the material worked in. It gives a picture of a society self-contained and of a medieval craft organisation. It is told with pride and without regret, and it shows as much knowledge of rugged humanity as of solid stone.
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June 2011Paperback
9781107601352
206 pages
216 × 141 × 13 mm
0.3kg
Unavailable - out of print February 2013
Table of Contents
- 1. The isle
- 2. Some disputed rights
- 3. Silt or growth?
- 4. Sights on marble
- 5. 'Old Men' and plans
- 6. Underground
- 7. Haulage
- 8. The use of tools
- 9. Building stone
- 10. Song and drink
- 11. Pedigrees
- 12. Mushroom merchants
- 13. Quarrymen's villages
- 14. The abandoned cliff
- Index.
