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BUILDING_STONE_ID | STONE_NAME | PARENT BUILDING STONE  ID | ALTERNATIVE_NAMES | [NAME] | COLOUR | COLOUR_VARIATION | WEATHERED COLOUR | LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY | CHRONOSTRAT | STONE_LITHOLOGY | GRAIN_SIZE | [NAME] | KEY_IDENTIFICATION_FEATURES | FAILURE_WEATHERING | CONTEXT_OF_USE | LOCALITY_OF_USE | DATE_COMPILED | COMPILED_BY | MINERAL PLANNING AREA | English Heritage Atlas Area | SOURCE_OF_INFO | retrieval_date
3901 | Cobbles | 1 | Boulders | Well rounded lithic clasts of cobble- to boulder-grade (typically 10 to 30 cm in diameter, but sometimes more).  Commonly composed of well cemented sandstone or quartzite (suspected to have originated from Triassic conglomerates), and possessing polished external surfaces (sometimes with [NAME]). |  | Variable | Variable, dependent on lithological type. | GLACIAL DEPOSITS | [NAME] | BOULDERS | Medium grained | Variable, dependent on lithological type. | Well-rounded shape, often with 'polished' external surfaces.  Commonly quartzite in terms of lithology. | Not usually susceptible to failure, with the exception of some igneous and metamorphic types. | Paving and walling.  [NAME] see only sporadic and limited use, however. | Used sporadically, and not to any great extent, across Lincolnshire.  Cobbles are used for paving purposes in Stamford, for example, and are sometimes feature in medieval church walls. | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3902 | Flint | 1 |  | Typical flint characteristics.  May have been obtained directly from the Cretaceous chalks, or from (geologically) reworked [NAME] sources. | GREY | Variable | Tend not to weather. | CHALK GROUP | [NAME] | FLINT | Very fine grained | Can show internal banding. | Irregular shape and hardness.  A conchoidal fracture is commonly exhibited by knapped surfaces. | Not usually susceptible to failure. | External walling.  Seen at one locality only during this survey. | Used on the external walls of the Church of St Matthew, [NAME]. | 2012-02-15 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3903 | Chalk | 1 | Clunch | Fine-grained, white or grey carbonate lithology, which may or may not carry flint nodules. | WHITE | Variable | Colour dulls.  Can take on shades of yellow and grey. | CHALK GROUP | [NAME] | CHALK | Fine grained | Can be significantly fractured.  Flint nodules may be present. | Fine-grained, calcareous nature.  May carry flints. | Chalk is not a particularly robust building material, hence its limited use. | Walling.  Specifically, the walls of medieval ecclesiastical buildings in north-eastern parts of Lincolnshire. | Used to only a limited extent in medieval ecclesiastical buildings on the Chalk (Group) outcrop of north-eastern parts of Lincolnshire.  Always seen in association with other lithologies. | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3904 | Upper Chalk | 3903 | Chalk |  |  |  |  | BURNHAM CHALK FORMATION | [NAME] | CHALK |  |  |  |  |  | Chalk blocks were not considered at 'formation level' during the course of this study | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3905 | Middle Chalk | 3903 | Chalk |  |  |  |  | WELTON CHALK FORMATION | [NAME] | CHALK |  |  |  |  |  | Chalk blocks were not considered at 'formation level' during the course of this study | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3906 | Lower Chalk | 3903 | Chalk |  |  |  |  | FERRIBY CHALK FORMATION | [NAME] | CHALK |  |  |  |  |  | Chalk blocks were not considered at 'formation level' during the course of this study | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3907 | Carstone | 1 |  |  |  |  |  | CARSTONE FORMATION | [NAME] | IRONSTONE, CALCAREOUS |  |  |  |  |  | Carstone was not identified in any built structures during the course of this study. | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3908 | [NAME] Ironstone | 1 | Roach Stone |  |  |  |  | [NAME] | [NAME] | IRONSTONE, CALCAREOUS |  |  |  |  |  | [NAME] was not identified in any built structures during the course of this study. | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3909 | [NAME] | 1 | Ironstone | Comprises sandy limestone with ooid-rich mudstones. The limestones are thicker and more indurated in northern Lincolnshire, becoming thinner, softer and more argillaceous towards the south. |  | Variable | Can darken substantially depending on the iron content. | TEALBY LIMESTONE MEMBER | [NAME] | LIMESTONE, FERRUGINOUS | Medium grained | Bedding/lamination is sometimes discernible. | [NAME] to orange to brown colour.  Sizeable bioclasts (typically bivalves and belemnites) commonly observed. | Can weather badly. | Walling (and dressings, if they have survived) of medieval churches in north-eastern parts of Lincolnshire.  Also features in dwellings and boundary walling in '[NAME]' villages. | Commonly used in medieval ecclesiastical buildings located within villages sitting on or close to the outcrop of the Tealby Formation.  The stone is also seen to travel many [NAME] from the [NAME] outcrop. | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork; BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3910 | [NAME] | 1 | [NAME] | See '[NAME] entry. |  |  |  | TEALBY LIMESTONE MEMBER | [NAME] | LIMESTONE, FERRUGINOUS |  |  |  |  | See '[NAME] entry. | See '[NAME] entry. | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3911 | Greystone | 1 | [NAME] | See '[NAME] entry. |  |  |  | TEALBY LIMESTONE MEMBER | [NAME] | IRONSTONE, CALCAREOUS, LIMESTONE, FERRUGINOUS |  |  |  |  | See '[NAME] entry. | See '[NAME] entry. | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3912 | [NAME] | 1 | Ironstone |  |  |  |  | CLAXBY IRONSTONE FORMATION | [NAME] | IRONSTONE, OOIDAL, LIMONITIC |  |  |  |  |  | [NAME] was not identified in any built structures during the course of this study. | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3913 | Greenstone | 1 | Spilsby Sandstone | The Spilsby Sandstone comprises two members that are further divided: [NAME] Member.  [NAME], coarse-grained, grey or brown pebble sandstone with iron ooliths.  Underlain by fine-to medium-grained, [NAME], yellow and white sands with sparse calcareous "doggers".  The latter sands become coarser and greener towards the base of the Member.  A bed of phosphatic nodules and small (generally chert) pebbles occurs at the base.  Lower Spilsby Sandstone Member. Coarse-grained, pebbly, glauconitic sands and sandstones with calcareous "doggers" and sporadic phosphatic nodules towards the top.  The base of the Member comprises a thin grey sandstone with phosphatic nodules. | GREEN | Variable | Commonly appears a greenish colour, but oranges and dark 'rusty' browns often develop as the blocks spall and weather. | SPILSBY SANDSTONE FORMATION | JURASSIC to [NAME] | SANDSTONE, GLAUCONITIC | Medium grained | Bedding can be apparent if there is grain size variation in a particular block. | Distinctive colour and weathering characteristics.  [NAME] grit and pebbles are commonly seen. | Can weather badly. |  | Commonly used in medieval ecclesiastical buildings located within villages sitting on or close to the outcrop of the Spilsby Sandstone Formation.  The stone is also seen to travel north-eastwards from the Spilsby Sandstone Formation outcrop. | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork; BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3914 | Cornbrash | 1 | Cornbrash Limestone |  |  |  |  | CORNBRASH FORMATION | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE |  |  |  |  |  | Not identified in any built structures during the course of this study. | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3915 | Blisworth Limestone | 1 |  |  |  |  |  | BLISWORTH LIMESTONE FORMATION | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE |  |  |  |  |  | Not identified in any built structures during the course of this study. | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3916 | Rutland Formation Limestone | 1 |  |  |  |  |  | [NAME] | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, FLAGGY |  |  |  |  |  | Not identified in any built structures during the course of this study. | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3917 | Lincolnshire Limestone | 1 |  | Limestone, typically calcilutites, peloidal wackestones and packstones in the lower part (Lower Lincolnshire Limestone) and high energy ooidal and shell fragmental grainstones in the upper part (Upper Lincolnshire Limestone).  Commonly includes sandy limestone in basal part and may contain substantial units of mudstone particularly from the Lincoln area northwards. | WHITE | Variable | Can take on a variety of pale colours when weathered (yellows, oranges, browns). | LINCOLNSHIRE LIMESTONE FORMATION | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL, SHELLY OR SPARRY | Medium grained | Bedding can be picked out by weathering. | Variably ooidal and bioclastic.  Weathering characteristics. | Variable.  Blocks in general tend to weather well, but will disaggregate, spall and generally fail with time. |  | Used extensively across Lincolnshire in its various guises.  Forms the main walling stone in buildings and structures located within villages situated on or within several km of the Lincolnshire Limestone outcrop.  Also used as the main walling stone in ecclesiastical buildings located some distance from the 'crop'.  Used county-wide for dressings (e.g. churches) and repair work and for a range of buildings post-mid-C19.. | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork; BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3918 | Ancaster Stone | 3917 | Lincolnshire Limestone |  |  |  |  | UPPER LINCOLNSHIRE LIMESTONE MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL, OCCASIONALLY SHELLY OR SPARRY |  |  | Lenticular bands of differing colour and texture are frequently conspicuous – the so-called 'streaky bacon' texture. |  |  | See general statement concerning '[NAME].  Some Lincolnshire Limestone variants have travelled further than others. | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3919 | [NAME] | 3917 | Lincolnshire Limestone |  |  |  |  | UPPER LINCOLNSHIRE LIMESTONE MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL, OCCASIONALLY SHELLY OR SPARRY |  |  |  |  |  | See general statement concerning '[NAME].  Some Lincolnshire Limestone variants have travelled further than others. | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3920 | Ancaster Hard White | 3917 | Lincolnshire Limestone |  |  |  |  | UPPER LINCOLNSHIRE LIMESTONE MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL |  |  |  |  |  | See general statement concerning '[NAME].  Some Lincolnshire Limestone variants have travelled further than others. | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3921 | Ancaster Freestone | 3917 | Lincolnshire Limestone |  |  |  |  | UPPER LINCOLNSHIRE LIMESTONE MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL |  |  |  |  |  | See general statement concerning '[NAME].  Some Lincolnshire Limestone variants have travelled further than others. | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3922 | Creeton Stone | 3917 | Lincolnshire Limestone |  |  |  |  | UPPER LINCOLNSHIRE LIMESTONE MEMBER |  | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL |  |  |  |  |  | See general statement concerning '[NAME].  Some Lincolnshire Limestone variants have travelled further than others. | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3923 | [NAME] | 3917 | [NAME] |  |  |  |  | UPPER LINCOLNSHIRE LIMESTONE MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL |  |  |  |  |  | See general statement concerning '[NAME].  Some Lincolnshire Limestone variants have travelled further than others. | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3924 | Stamford Freestone | 3917 | Lincolnshire Limestone |  |  |  |  | UPPER LINCOLNSHIRE LIMESTONE MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL |  |  |  |  |  | See general statement concerning '[NAME].  Some Lincolnshire Limestone variants have travelled further than others. | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3925 | [NAME] | 3917 | Lincolnshire Limestone |  |  |  |  | LOWER LINCOLNSHIRE LIMESTONE MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL |  |  |  |  |  | See general statement concerning '[NAME].  Some Lincolnshire Limestone variants have travelled further than others. | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3926 | [NAME] | 3917 |  | Atypical 'Lincolnshire Limestone'.  Silicate- and calcareous mudstone, interbedded with thin and more or less argillaceous limestones (calcilutite and shelly and peloidal wackestone). Locally includes coralliferous limestone bodies (knoll reef). |  |  |  | LOWER LINCOLNSHIRE LIMESTONE MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE |  |  |  |  |  | Not identified in any built structures during the course of this study. | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3927 | [NAME] | 3917 | Lincolnshire Limestone |  |  |  |  | SANTON OOLITE | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL |  |  |  |  |  | See general statement concerning '[NAME].  Some Lincolnshire Limestone variants have travelled further than others. | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3928 | [NAME] | 1 |  | Generic term applying to ferruginous lithologies belonging to the Northampton Sand or Marlstone Rock formations, but otherwise of uncertain stratigraphical affinites.  Physical examination of stone blocks assigned this name is required to confirm their identity. |  |  |  | JURASSIC ROCKS (UNDIFFERENTIATED) | JURASSIC | NOT ENTERED |  |  |  |  |  | Generic term applying to ferruginous lithologies belonging to the Northampton Sand or Marlstone Rock formations, but otherwise of uncertain stratigraphical affinites. | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3929 | Northampton Sand | 3928 | Ironstone |  |  |  |  | NORTHAMPTON SAND FORMATION | JURASSIC | IRONSTONE, OOIDAL, LIMONITIC |  |  |  |  |  | Not identified in any built structures during the course of this study, but may be present in buildings which include 'Jurassic Ironstone' (TBC). | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3930 | Marlstone Rock | 3928 | Ironstone | Sandy, bioclastic and ooidal ferruginous limestone interbedded with ferruginous calcareous sandstone, and generally subordinate ferruginous mudstone beds. Locally any of these lithologies may pass by increase in iron content into generally ooidal ironstone, and in places any of these may dominate.  Fossil content variable throughout, but locally abundant especially in limestone beds. |  | Variable | Has a tendency to darken (influenced by iron content) | [NAME] FORMATION | JURASSIC | IRONSTONE, CALCAREOUS, LIMESTONE, FERRUGINOUS AND SANDSTONE, LIMONITIC | Medium grained | Tends to be massive. | Colour and fossil content. | Colour tends to darken.  Blocks diasaggregate and spall. | Used as walling stone (principal or accessory), featuring notably in the fabrics of medieval churches. | Features in walling in villages located on or close to the outcrop of the Marlstone Rock Formation lying to the W and NW of Grantham.  Also seen sporadically further north in villages (more specifically in village churches) located within several km of the (by now narrow) Marlstone Rock outcrop. | 2012-02-26 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork; BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3931 | Blue Lias | 1 | [NAME] | Blue-grey, calcareous mudstones and silstones which exist in beds of 10 to 30 cm depth.  May carry bioclastic debris. |  | Uniform | Typical blue-grey colour tends to lighten further with weathering. | BARNSTONE MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE | Fine grained | Typically laminated. | Blue-grey colour, fine-grained and laminated nature, weathering characteristics. | Colour lightens further.  Blocks tends to round and spall and also open along the lamination planes. | Medieval church walling, dwellings (often forming the footings), barns and other walling. | Localized use to the NE of Grantham in villages located close to the Lincolnshire-Nottinghamshire county boundary (e.g. [NAME] and [NAME]). | 2012-02-20 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3932 | Purbeck Marble | 1 | Purbeck Limestone | Calcarenites and calcirudites (rich in bioclastic material) interbedded with carbonaceous clays. The base is defined by thickly-bedded, limestones containing fragmented shells (Upper Broken Shell Limestone Bed). This passes (and fines) upwards into a biomicrite and carbonaceous mud-dominated sequence with glauconite-rich beds, which, in the west, are commonly rich in detrital quartz ([NAME], Upper "Cypris" Clays and Shales Beds). The limestones in this part of the Member contain abundant [NAME] and Viviparus. | GREY | Uniform | Variable, can either lighten or darken (with localized 'rusting'). | DURLSTON FORMATION | [NAME] | LIMESTONE, BIOCLASTIC | Fine grained |  | Fragments of the gastropod Viviparus can usually be seen. | Crumbles and 'rusts' if used externally (and this is the case at Croyland Abbey). | External ornamentation at Croyland Abbey | Only external use noted during the course of this study was at Croyland Abbey. | 2012-02-20 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork; BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3933 | Portland Stone | 1 | Portland Limestone |  |  |  |  | PORTLAND FREESTONE MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, BIOCLASTIC |  |  |  |  |  | Not present in any built structures recorded during the course of this study. | 2012-02-20 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3934 | Barnack Stone | 3917 | Barnack Rag | Coarse, bioclastic variety of Lincolnshire Limestone. |  |  |  | UPPER LINCOLNSHIRE LIMESTONE MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, BIOCLASTIC | Coarse grained | Cross-bedding frequently seen, especially in larger blocks. | Particularly coarse-grained and bioclastic variety of Lincolnshire Limestone, which often displays cross-bedding. |  | More likely to be used for walling and quoins than intricate dressings (though not always true). | Used in ecclesiastical buildings in the southern parts of Lincolnshire. | 2012-02-20 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3935 | Ketton Stone | 3917 | Lincolnshire Limestone | Texturally uniform, ooid-rich, bioclast-poor variety of Lincolnshire Limestone. |  |  |  | UPPER LINCOLNSHIRE LIMESTONE MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL | Medium grained |  | Texturally uniform, ooid-rich, bioclast-poor variety of Lincolnshire Limestone. |  | Walling and dressings. | Used fairly extensively across Lincolnshire, particularly in ecclesiastical buildings/restorations post-mid-C19. | 2012-02-20 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3936 | [NAME] | 3917 | Lincolnshire Limestone | A thinly bedded, fine-grained, grey, sandy limstone that readily splits along its bedding planes. |  | Uniform | [NAME] to cream. | LOWER LINCOLNSHIRE LIMESTONE MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, FISSILE, SANDY | Fine grained | Thinly bedded. | Variable size and thickness, and mode of use (with the smallest 'slates' laid at the roof apex and the largest at the eaves). | Generally resistant to weathering. | Roofing | Used for roofing purposes (churches, manor houses, dwellings) in southern parts of Lincolnshire e.g. Stamford. | 2012-02-20 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3937 | Millstone Grit | 1 | Gritstone | Fine- to very coarse-grained (but typically coarse- to very coarse-grained) feldspathic sandstones. |  | Variable | Variable | MILLSTONE GRIT GROUP [SEE ALSO MIGR] | CARBONIFEROUS | SANDSTONE, COARSE-GRAINED | Coarse grained | Cross-bedding may be seen. | Coarse-grained, often gritty, well-cemented, hard sandstones. | Generally resistant to weathering. | Walling (repairs) | Used sporadically and only to a very limited extent in Lincolnshire for repair work. | 2012-02-20 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3938 | Swithland Slate | 1 | [NAME] |  |  |  |  | [NAME] | CAMBRIAN | NOT ENTERED |  |  |  |  |  | Not identified in any built structures during the course of this study. | 2012-02-20 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3939 | Limestone | 1 | Magnesian and/or Lincolnshire Limestone | An umbrella stone name introduced to cover limestones of uncertain origins featuring in ecclesiastical buildings in the very northern and north-western parts of Lincolnshire.  These 'limestones' may be Lincolnshire Limestone or/and Magnesian Limestone (Cadeby Formation).  Physical examination of these blocks in-situ is required to confirm their identity. |  |  |  | PERMIAN TO JURASSIC ROCKS (UNDIFFERENTIATED) |  | NOT ENTERED |  |  | General textural and also weathering characteristics allow the Late Permian Magnesian limestones to be distinguised from the Middle Jurassic Lincolnshire limestones. |  | Walling and dressings of ecclesastical buildings. | Umbrella term used in relation to limestone blocks featuring in ecclesiastical buildings in northern and north-eastern parts of Lincolnshire. | 2012-02-20 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3940 | Upper Lincolnshire Limestone | 3917 | Lincolnshire Limestone | Limestone, overwhelmingly dominated by high-energy ooidal and shell fragmental grainstones, but includes secondarily recrystallized and micritized lithologies. |  |  |  | UPPER LINCOLNSHIRE LIMESTONE MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL, SHELLY OR SPARRY |  |  |  |  |  | See general statement concerning '[NAME].  Some Lincolnshire Limestone variants have travelled further than others. | 2012-02-28 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork; BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units | 2012-05-16 10:20:52
3941 | Lower Lincolnshire Limestone | 3917 | Lincolnshire Limestone | Limestones, dominated by low-energy calcilutite, and peloidal wackestone and packstone. Commonly includes sandy limestone or calcareous sandstone in basal part (locally known as [NAME]) and contains substantial units of mudstone, particularly from the Lincoln area northwards. |  |  |  | LOWER LINCOLNSHIRE LIMESTONE MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL, SHELLY OR SPARRY |  |  |  |  |  | See general statement concerning '[NAME].  Some Lincolnshire Limestone variants have travelled further than others. | 2012-02-28 00:00:00 | SFP/GKL | Lincolnshire County Council | Lincolnshire English Heritage Atlas Area | GKL/SFP personal knowledge; fieldwork; BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units | 2012-05-16 10:20:52