This is the stone I am hoping to incorporate into a rustic but also formal water feature. It is from Portland, Dorset, and is called 'roach'. Look closely and you can see the holes of hundreds of Nautilus shells from when they were alive and surrounded by mud.
I love contrasting the random rusticity of this stuff with the formality of how it is shaped. Very 18th/17th century.
Love it.
ReplyDeleteMe too.
DeleteBeautiful Tom.
ReplyDelete160 million years in the making.
DeleteRustic rectangle
ReplyDeleteOssified oblong.
DeletePockmarked paver.
DeleteRoving Ryevita
DeleteHoley hunk.
DeleteCheesy chunk.
DeleteLooks very tactile, Tom. Hope you will show us the finished article,
ReplyDeleteOnce again, I can't. It won't be finished until next year anyway.
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