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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
1233 | [NAME] | 1 | [NAME] | Oolitic Limestone |  |  |  | BIRDLIP [NAME] |  | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL |  |  |  |  |  | UK |  |  | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area |  | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1234 | Chipping [NAME] | 1 | [NAME] | Brown ooidal limestones from the Cotswold area. Not conspicuously fossiliferous. Used as a freestone. Moderately hard. | DARK-BROWN | Uniform | dark brown | BIRDLIP [NAME] | MID JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL | FINE GRAINED | Ooidal. Occasionally cross-bedded. | Colour - darker brown (distinguishes it from Chipping Norton Lst). Fine grained ooidal limestone. | Few - durable | Walling, flooring, monuments, decorative carving. | South Warks, e.g.window surrounds at Halford church. | 2010-02-27 00:00:00 | JEGH | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area |  | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1901 | Puff Stone | 1 | Tufa | Soft, porus calcareous precipitate formed around springs and watercourses by calcite saturated water. | PALE-YELLOW | Mottled | Pale yellow | [NAME] | [NAME] | LIMESTONE |  | Can contain plant remains. | Soft, light (in weight). | Easily weathered and pitted. | Used extensively by Romans for bath vaults, and in ceilings and vaults in churches. | Gloucestershire | 2009-05-07 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; [NAME]; The Severn Vale and Forest of Dean, Yale University Press | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1902 | Great Oolite | 1 | Great Oolite Weatherstone | Calcareous (rarely oolitic) and argillaceous formations. | [NAME] |  | No description | GREAT OOLITE GROUP | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL | Varied | Cross-bedding, interbedding, laminations. | No description | No description | Widespread and varied use including building stones and weatherstone, decorative stone  and aggregates. It has been used locally and over a wider area including Oxfordshire and London. | Widespread | 2009-05-07 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | [NAME], [NAME], Barron, A.J.M. and Morigi, A.N. (2000) Geology of the Cirencester district, [NAME]. Geo. Surv., Sheet 235( England & Wales) | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1903 | Cornbrash | 1 |  | Limestone, medium- to fine-grained, predominantly bioclastic wackestone and packstone with sporadic peloids; generally and characteristically intensely bioturbated and consequently poorly bedded, although better bedded, commonly somewhat arenaceous units occur in places, particularly in the upper part. Generally bluish grey when fresh, but weathers to olive or yellowish brown. Thin argillaceous partings or interbeds of calcareous mudstone may occur. | PALE-GREY |  | Golden-brown | CORNBRASH FORMATION | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE | Medium grained | Porrly bedded due to intense bioturbation. | Rubbly. Golden -brown colour. Intensly bioturbated. |  | Used in the area of Siddington and Fairford as a building stone. | SE Cotswolds | 2009-05-08 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm =/= Hollingworth, N. (2006) The Geology of Spratsgate Lane [NAME], Unpublished. | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1904 | Forest Marble | 1 |  | Dominated by mudstone, but lenticular beds of limestone occur occur throughout, and generally dominate the lower part. There is no consistent internal stratigraphy and the succession is laterally very variable. | GREYGREEN |  | Grey | FOREST MARBLE FORMATION | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE | Variable | Cross-bedding, laminations. | Variable, but often shell fragmental, blue-hearted limestones | [NAME] with weathering. Used a s a weatherstone. | Used for pitching, flagstones and tilestones while upright slabs formed fences and some walls. Used as rubble stone in areas lacking freestone. | Mainly SE Cotswolds | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | [NAME], [NAME], Barron, A.J.M. and Morigi, A.N. (2000) Geology of the Cirencester district, [NAME]. Geo. Surv., Sheet 235( England & Wales); Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; [NAME]; The Severn Vale and Forest of Dean, Yale University Press | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1905 | Poulton Slates | 1904 | Forest Marble | Silicate-mudstone, greenish grey, variably calcareous and in the south notably sandy, with lenticular typically cross-bedded limestone units that form banks and channel-fills, especially in lower part. A variety of limestone types occur, of which grey, weathering brown and flaggy, variably sandy medium to coarsely bioclastic grainstone or less commonly packstone predominates, especially at the base, which is increasingly ooidal north from [NAME] (termed the Acton Turville Beds from Biddestone to Didmarton). | GREY |  | Greenish-grey | FOREST MARBLE FORMATION | JURASSIC | MUDSTONE AND LIMESTONE | Very fine grained | Cross-bedding |  |  | Roofing tilestone, flagstones, slabs used upright for walls and fences. | Cotswolds | 2009-05-08 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey =[NAME], [NAME], Barron, A.J.M. & Morigi, A.N. (2000) Geology of the Cirencester District, Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 235 (England and Wales) | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1906 | [NAME] | 1904 | Forest Marble | Silicate-mudstone, greenish grey, variably calcareous and in the south notably sandy, with lenticular typically cross-bedded limestone units that form banks and channel-fills, especially in lower part. A variety of limestone types occur, of which grey, weathering brown and flaggy, variably sandy medium to coarsely bioclastic grainstone or less commonly packstone predominates, especially at the base, which is increasingly ooidal north from [NAME] (termed the Acton Turville Beds from Biddestone to Didmarton). | GREY |  | Greenish-grey | [NAME] BEDS [OBSOLETE NAME AND CODE] | JURASSIC | MUDSTONE AND LIMESTONE | Very fine-grained | Cross-bedding |  |  | Roofing tilestone, flagstones, slabs used upright for walls and fences. | Cotswolds | 2009-05-08 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey =[NAME], [NAME], Barron, A.J.M. & Morigi, A.N. (2000) Geology of the Cirencester District, Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 235 (England and Wales) | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1907 | White Limestone | 1 |  | Divisible into three members (Shipton, Ardley and [NAME]), each representing a shallowing upward sedimentary cycle. Shipton and Ardley Members are characterised by pale grey-white micritic limestones, with flaggy ooidal and shell fragmental limestones. At some levels, a cavernous weathering '[NAME] is found. The Signet Member is most typically a brownish grey wackestone with a sandy or clayey micrite matrix. | WHITE | Mottled | White - pale yellow; orange mottling. | WHITE LIMESTONE FORMATION | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE | Fine grained | Cross-bedding, bioturbation. | Large burrows in '[NAME] hardground horizons. |  | Used as a building stone, though more often a source of aggregate today. White Limestone was used locally and distally as ashlar, panelling and paving. Also as ornamental stone in rockeries, gateposts and walls. | Cotswolds | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | [NAME], [NAME], Barron, A.J.M. and Morigi, A.N. (2000) Geology of the Cirencester district, [NAME]. Geo. Surv., Sheet 235( England & Wales); Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; [NAME]; | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1908 | [NAME] | 1907 |  | Within the White Limestone Formation there are a number of hard calcite-mudstone beds known as ‘[NAME]’. Characteristic features of these are branching voids within the rock resulting from solution of branching corals and/ or burrow systems and the occurrence of these beds immediately above fossilised erosion surfaces known as hardgrounds. | BROWN | Mottled | [NAME] | WHITE LIMESTONE FORMATION | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE | Medium grained | Burrows - infilled with orange calcareous sands. | Tubular cavities, usuall c 1-2 cm across, filled with calcareous sand. | Infilled burrows weather out leaving a 'honeycomb' rock behind. | Ornamental stone in rockeries, gateposts and walls. | Cotswolds | 2009-05-08 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey =[NAME], [NAME], Barron, A.J.M. & Morigi, A.N. (2000) Geology of the Cirencester District, Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 235 (England and Wales) | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1909 | [NAME] | 1907 |  | Now known as the Signet Member of the White Limestone Fmn and is most typically a brownish grey wackestone with a sandy or clayey micrite matrix. | GREY |  | Greenish-grey | KEMBLE BEDS [OBSOLETE NAME AND CODE: SEE BLAD AND SI] | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE | Very fine grained | Cross-bedding |  |  | Roofing tilestone, flagstones, slabs used upright for walls and fences. Used locally as ashlar, panelling and paving. Also as ornamental stone in rockeries, gateposts and walls. | Cotswolds | 2010-09-30 00:00:00 | D Cameron | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | [NAME], [NAME], Barron, A.J.M. and Morigi, A.N. (2000) Geology of the Cirencester district, [NAME]. Geo. Surv., Sheet 235( England & Wales); Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; [NAME]; Price, A, (2010) Personal communication | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1910 | Signet Member | 1907 | [NAME] | Typically a brownish grey wackestone with a sandy or clayey micrite matrix. | GREY |  | Greenish-grey | SIGNET MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE | Very fine grained | Cross-bedding |  |  | Roofing tilestone, flagstones, slabs used upright for walls and fences. | Cotswolds | 2009-05-08 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey =[NAME], [NAME], Barron, A.J.M. & Morigi, A.N. (2000) Geology of the Cirencester District, Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 235 (England and Wales) | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1911 | [NAME] | 1 |  | Ooidal grainstone, predominantly pale grey and pale yellow to white fine- to coarse-grained, with variable bioclastic content, in medium to thick beds; cross-bedded in parts; bioturbated in parts. A median unit of pisoidal, bioclastic limestone (Twinhoe Member) is developed south of [NAME]. The generally moderately bioclastic ooid-limestones below ([NAME] Member) are fine- to coarse-grained, and those above ([NAME] Member) are medium- to coarse-grained ooid-limestones. Where the Twinhoe Member is not recognisable, the Combe Down and [NAME] members might not be distinguishable. The uppermost beds of the formation include lenticular masses of coralliferous limestone (?[NAME] Member). The basal beds from Tormarton north to Hawkesbury Upton comprise a unit of coarse-grained shelly ooidal limestone ("Grickstone Beds"). These resemble the basal limestone of the Forest Marble Formation and north of Little Badminton where the overlying [NAME] beds are absent they cannot be reliably distinguished. From Westonbirt northeast to [NAME] the formation comprises pale bioclastic ooid-limestone, and the strata cannot be assigned to members, apart from, locally, the [NAME] Member. | PALE-GREY |  | Pale grey. | CHALFIELD OOLITE FORMATION | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL | Fine-coarse grained | Bioturbation. | Consistent bioclastic content. | No description | Roofing tilestone, flagstones, slabs used upright for walls and fences. | SE Cotswolds, to Bath and NE Somerset. | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | [NAME], [NAME], Barron, A.J.M. and Morigi, A.N. (2000) Geology of the Cirencester district, [NAME]. Geo. Surv., Sheet 235( England & Wales); Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; [NAME]; Price, A, (2010) Personal communication | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1912 | Coppice Limestone | 1 |  | Limestone, white to pale yellow, poorly fossiliferous ooid-grainstones and ooidal limestones, in the southwest they are generally well sorted medium-grained and massive, rarely cross-bedded; in the northeast they become more bioclastic, less well sorted fine- to coarse-grained, commonly cross-bedded. Generally capped by bored, encrusted hardground (mapped on sheets 234 (1972 edition) and 251 (1970 edition) as "chinastone" or "Coppice Limestone" (Cave, 1977)). Lateral passage northeast into peloidal packstones and wackestones of the Ardley Member (White Limestone Formation), and the lower part passes southwestwards by decrease in ooid content into the Tresham Rock Formation. | PALE-YELLOW |  | Grey | [NAME] | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL | Medium grained | Cross-bedding. |  |  | From use in Neolithic long barrows, through stiles, copings, flagstones and steps, to reconstruction of church spires in Notgrove and [NAME] churches. | SW Cotswolds | 2009-05-08 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. =/= BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1913 | Planking | 1912 | Coppice Limestone | Limestone, white to pale yellow, poorly fossiliferous ooid-grainstones and ooidal limestones, in the southwest they are generally well sorted medium-grained and massive, rarely cross-bedded; in the northeast they become more bioclastic, less well sorted fine- to coarse-grained, commonly cross-bedded. Generally capped by bored, encrusted hardground (mapped on sheets 234 (1972 edition) and 251 (1970 edition) as "chinastone" or "Coppice Limestone" (Cave, 1977)). Lateral passage northeast into peloidal packstones and wackestones of the Ardley Member (White Limestone Formation), and the lower part passes southwestwards by decrease in ooid content into the Tresham Rock Formation. | PALE-YELLOW |  | Grey | [NAME] | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL | Medium grained | Cross-bedding. |  |  | From use in Neolithic long barrows, through stiles, copings, flagstones and steps, to reconstruction of church spires in Notgrove and [NAME] churches. | SW Cotswolds | 2009-05-08 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. =/= BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1914 | Chinastone | 1912 | Coppice Limestone | Limestone, white to pale yellow, poorly fossiliferous ooid-grainstones and ooidal limestones, in the southwest they are generally well sorted medium-grained and massive, rarely cross-bedded; in the northeast they become more bioclastic, less well sorted fine- to coarse-grained, commonly cross-bedded. Generally capped by bored, encrusted hardground (mapped on sheets 234 (1972 edition) and 251 (1970 edition) as "chinastone" or "Coppice Limestone" (Cave, 1977)). Lateral passage northeast into peloidal packstones and wackestones of the Ardley Member (White Limestone Formation), and the lower part passes southwestwards by decrease in ooid content into the Tresham Rock Formation. | PALE-YELLOW |  | Grey | [NAME] | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL | Medium grained | Cross-bedding. |  |  | From use in Neolithic long barrows, through stiles, copings, flagstones and steps, to reconstruction of church spires in Notgrove and [NAME] churches. | SW Cotswolds | 2009-05-08 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. =/= BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1915 | [NAME] | 1 |  | Limestones with subordinate interbedded marls; limestones characteristically grey to brown, thinly bedded, fine- to very fine-grained, well-sorted, ooidal grainstone to packstone, commonly slightly sandy or silty, with small-scale cross-bedding. | GREYBROWN |  | Grey | [NAME] | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE | Fine-very fine | Small scale cross bedding | Thinly bedded, well sorted. |  | Walling and tilestones for roofing locally. | SE Cotswolds | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | [NAME], [NAME], Barron, A.J.M. and Morigi, A.N. (2000) Geology of the Cirencester district, [NAME]. Geo. Surv., Sheet 235( England & Wales); Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; [NAME]; Price, A, (2010) Personal communication | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1916 | Througham Tilestones | 1 | Througham Member | Grey, fissile sandy limestones and very fine grained ooidal grainstones. | GREY | Uniform | Grey | THROUGHAM TILESTONE FORMATION | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE | Fine grained | Cross-bedding, thinly bedded/laminated | Fissile sandy limestones. | Splits into tiles along sandy laminae | Once widely exploited for roofing slates. Very similar to Eyford Member [NAME]. | Cotswolds - mainly around Stroud and Cirencester | 2009-05-08 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. =[NAME], [NAME], Barron, A.J.M. & Morigi, A.N. (2000) Geology of the Cirencester District, Memoir of the British Geological Survey, Sheet 235 (England and Wales) | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1917 | Fuller's Earth Formation | 1 |  | Silicate-mudstone, grey, bedded, variably calcareous, grading to lime-mudstone, fossiliferous, with units of thinly interbedded, more or less silici-muddy limestone (including the Fuller's Earth Rock Member, [NAME] Member), and well-bedded sandy limestone and calcareous sandstone (including the Eyford Member and Througham Member). Where the Fuller's Earth Rock Member is present, the mudstone beds below and above are termed the Lower Fuller's Earth Member and Upper Fuller's Earth Member respectively, and parts of these may be given local names (see separate entries). The commercial fuller's earth bed occurs in the upper part of the formation in the Bath area. In the English Channel Basin the formation is predominantly mudstone with carbonaceous material at some levels and shell beds. In the St George's Channel Basin it is predominantly mudstone but includes calcareous sandstone beds. | GREY | Mottled | Light grey. | FULLER'S EARTH FORMATION | JURASSIC | MUDSTONE AND LIMESTONE | Clay | Laminations | Sticky, heavy clay. | No description | Tilestones of the Eyford Member used for roofing slates ([NAME]). | Bath and NE Somerset | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | [NAME], [NAME], Barron, A.J.M. and Morigi, A.N. (2000) Geology of the Cirencester district, [NAME]. Geo. Surv., Sheet 235( England & Wales) | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1918 | [NAME] | 1917 | Pendle | Pale grey, fissile, finely ooidal grainstone interbedded with grey, laminated fissile calcareous sandstone, locally decalcified to loose orange-brown sand, with minor beds of shelly and shell-fragmental limestone, marl or fissile mudstone. | GREY |  | Grey | EYFORD MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL | Fine grained | Laminations, cross-bedding | Thinly bedded, oolitic and sandy layers. | Splits into tiles along sandy laminae | Roofing slates | Cotswolds | 2009-05-07 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. =/= BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1919 | [NAME] | 1917 |  | Silicate-mudstone, grey, bedded, variably calcareous, grading to lime-mudstone, fossiliferous, with units of thinly interbedded, more or less silici-muddy limestone (including the Fuller's Earth Rock Member, [NAME] Member), and well-bedded sandy limestone and calcareous sandstone (including the Eyford Member and Througham Member). Where the Fuller's Earth Rock Member is present, the mudstone beds below and above are termed the Lower Fuller's Earth Member and Upper Fuller's Earth Member respectively, and parts of these may be given local names (see separate entries). The commercial fuller's earth bed occurs in the upper part of the formation in the Bath area. In the English Channel Basin the formation is predominantly mudstone with carbonaceous material at some levels and shell beds. In the St George's Channel Basin it is predominantly mudstone but includes calcareous sandstone beds. | PALE-YELLOW |  | Cream | FULLER'S EARTH FORMATION | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, BIOCLASTIC | Coarse grained |  | Extremely hard, recrystallised shelly limestone. | Weathers exceptionally well. | Anywhere where a weather resistant stone is required, e.g. tables, tombs, ledgers, slabs, doorways, window mouldings, ornaments etc. | Gloucestershire | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Witchell, E. (1882) The Geology of Stroud and the area drained by the [NAME], [NAME] | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1920 | Minchinhampton Weatherstone | 1917 |  | Silicate-mudstone, grey, bedded, variably calcareous, grading to lime-mudstone, fossiliferous, with units of thinly interbedded, more or less silici-muddy limestone (including the Fuller's Earth Rock Member, [NAME] Member), and well-bedded sandy limestone and calcareous sandstone (including the Eyford Member and Througham Member). Where the Fuller's Earth Rock Member is present, the mudstone beds below and above are termed the Lower Fuller's Earth Member and Upper Fuller's Earth Member respectively, and parts of these may be given local names (see separate entries). The commercial fuller's earth bed occurs in the upper part of the formation in the Bath area. In the English Channel Basin the formation is predominantly mudstone with carbonaceous material at some levels and shell beds. In the St George's Channel Basin it is predominantly mudstone but includes calcareous sandstone beds. | PALE-YELLOW |  | Cream | FULLER'S EARTH FORMATION | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, BIOCLASTIC | Coarse grained |  | Extremely hard, recrystallised shelly limestone. | Weathers exceptionally well. | Anywhere where a weather resistant stone is required, e.g. tables, tombs, ledgers, slabs, doorways, window mouldings, ornaments etc. | Gloucestershire | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Witchell, E. (1882) The Geology of Stroud and the area drained by the [NAME], [NAME] | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1921 | [NAME] | 1 |  | White to pale brown, typically well-sorted medium- to coarse-grained, moderately to highly shell-detrital ooidal grainstone, locally fine- to very coarse-grained; medium to thickly well-bedded and cross-bedded, with thin shell-detrital marl seams and locally calcareous sandstone beds. | PALE-BROWN | Uniform | Golden-brown | [NAME] | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL | Medium grained | Cross-bedded. Interbedded marla nd sandstone horizons. | Weathered stone contrast with white shells within it. Seams and wisps of shell detritus. |  | Widespread and numerous uses from dimension stone, ashlar and walling to fine and intricate mouldings, carvings and ornaments. | Cotswolds - north-central | 2009-05-08 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. =/= BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1922 | [NAME] | 1921 | [NAME] | Greyish-brown oolitic limestone full of shells, crystalline lime and shelly detritus. Towrds the base of the unit the stone acquires great hardness from the increased amount of the vales of oysters in the mass. | PALE-YELLOW |  | Cream | [NAME] | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, BIOCLASTIC | Coarse grained |  | Extremely hard, recrystallised shelly limestone. | Weathers exceptionally well. | Anywhere where a weather resistant stone is required, e.g. tables, tombs, ledgers, slabs, doorways, window mouldings, ornaments etc. | Gloucestershire | 2009-05-08 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Witchell, E. (1882) The Geology of Stroud and the area drained by the [NAME], [NAME] | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1923 | Plinth Stone | 1921 | [NAME] | Greyish-brown oolitic limestone full of shells, crystalline lime and shelly detritus. Towrds the base of the unit the stone acquires great hardness from the increased amount of the vales of oysters in the mass. | PALE-YELLOW |  | Cream | [NAME] | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, BIOCLASTIC | Coarse grained |  | Extremely hard, recrystallised shelly limestone. | Weathers exceptionally well. | Anywhere where a weather resistant stone is required, e.g. tables, tombs, ledgers, slabs, doorways, window mouldings, ornaments etc. | Gloucestershire | 2009-05-08 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Witchell, E. (1882) The Geology of Stroud and the area drained by the [NAME], [NAME] | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1924 | Chipping Norton Limestone | 1 |  | Limestone, off-white to pale brown fine- to medium-grained ooidal and coated peloidal grainstone, with common fine burrows, medium- to coarse-grained shell debris and flakes of greenish grey mudstone and dark lignite and minor amounts of fine-grained sand. Thick-bedded and cross-bedded or massive, weathering to flaggy or platy. Thin shell-detrital and [NAME] and mudstone intercalations in places. | BUFF |  | Buff - grey | CHIPPING NORTON LIMESTONE FORMATION | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL | Medium grained | Cross-bedding, flaggy bedding. |  | Decalcification can reduce some facies to sand. | Records of use in Gloucestershire include flaggy beds being used as flagstones, and more massive beds used as building stones. | Cotswolds | 2009-05-07 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. =/= BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1925 | Inferior Oolite | 1 | Ragstones | Varied sucession of ooidal, peloidal, marly, sandy, ferruginous and shelly limestones, with subordinate sandstone, calcareous mudstone and mudstone beds. | GREY | Spotted | Grey | INFERIOR OOLITE GROUP | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, BIOCLASTIC | Coarse grained |  | Fossils - Trigonia costata; [NAME] sp. | Fossils weather out leaving casts behind. | Widespread and numerous uses from dimension stone, ashlar and walling to fine and intricate mouldings, carvings and ornaments. | Cotswolds | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1926 | [NAME] | 1 | Middle Inferior Oolite Ragstones | Grey speckled with orange brown very shelly and shell-detrital moderately sandy peloid wackestones, packstones and grainstones with thin marl and sand beds, some shelly; some of the peloids are ferruginous ('ironshot'); commonly pebbly at the base, thins and becomes more marly, ironshot and conglomeratic northwards; the fauna includes bivalves (notably trigoniids), brachiopods, corals and the colonial serpulid [NAME] (See [NAME], M G, [NAME], A J M and Morigi, A N, 2000). | GREY | Spotted | Grey | ASTON [NAME] | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, BIOCLASTIC | Coarse grained |  | Fossils - Trigonia costata; [NAME] sp. | Fossils weather out leaving casts behind. | Varied use depending on particular Members, including walling, freestone and aggregate. Generally restricted to the local area. | Cotswolds | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1927 | Lower Trigonia Grit | 1926 | Ragstones | Grey speckled with orange brown very shelly and shell-detrital moderately sandy peloid wackestones, packstones and grainstones with thin marl and sand beds, some shelly; some of the peloids are ferruginous ('ironshot'); commonly pebbly at the base, thins and becomes more marly, ironshot and conglomeratic northwards; the fauna includes bivalves (notably trigoniids), brachiopods, corals and the colonial serpulid [NAME] (See [NAME], M G, [NAME], A J M and Morigi, A N, 2000). | GREY | Spotted | Grey | LOWER TRIGONIA GRIT MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, BIOCLASTIC | Coarse grained |  | Fossils - Trigonia costata; [NAME] sp. | Fossils weather out leaving casts behind. | Field walls, foundations, ornamental rustic work and rockeries. | Cotswolds | 2009-05-07 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. =/= BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1928 | Gryphite Grit Member | 1926 | Ragstones | Grey speckled with orange brown very shelly and shell-detrital moderately sandy peloid wackestones, packstones and grainstones with thin marl and sand beds, some shelly; some of the peloids are ferruginous ('ironshot'); commonly pebbly at the base, thins and becomes more marly, ironshot and conglomeratic northwards; the fauna includes bivalves (notably trigoniids), brachiopods, corals and the colonial serpulid [NAME] (See [NAME], M G, [NAME], A J M and Morigi, A N, 2000). | GREY | Spotted | Grey | GRYPHITE GRIT MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, BIOCLASTIC | Coarse grained |  | Fossils - Trigonia costata; [NAME] sp. | Fossils weather out leaving casts behind. | Field walls, foundations, ornamental rustic work and rockeries. | Cotswolds | 2009-05-07 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. =/= BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1929 | Notgrove Freestone | 1926 |  | Pale brownish grey, poorly sorted medium- to coarse-grained peloidal and ooidal grainstone, typically poorly sorted or bimodal; medium-bedded and cross-bedded, shells and shell debris rare, except in lowest beds. | WHITE | Uniform | Greys sligthly | NOTGROVE MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL | Fine grained | Cross-bedded. | Fine oolite, bored surfaces. | [NAME] with weathering | Generally used in small sizes for random or coursed walling. | Central Cotswolds | 2009-05-07 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. =/= BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1930 | Notgrove Member | 1926 | Ragstones | Grey speckled with orange brown very shelly and shell-detrital moderately sandy peloid wackestones, packstones and grainstones with thin marl and sand beds, some shelly; some of the peloids are ferruginous ('ironshot'); commonly pebbly at the base, thins and becomes more marly, ironshot and conglomeratic northwards; the fauna includes bivalves (notably trigoniids), brachiopods, corals and the colonial serpulid [NAME] (See [NAME], M G, [NAME], A J M and Morigi, A N, 2000). | GREY | Spotted | Grey | NOTGROVE MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, BIOCLASTIC | Coarse grained |  | Fossils - Trigonia costata; [NAME] sp. | Fossils weather out leaving casts behind. | Field walls, foundations, ornamental rustic work and rockeries. | Cotswolds | 2009-05-07 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. =/= BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1931 | Buckmani Grit | 1926 | Ragstones | Grey speckled with orange brown very shelly and shell-detrital moderately sandy peloid wackestones, packstones and grainstones with thin marl and sand beds, some shelly; some of the peloids are ferruginous ('ironshot'); commonly pebbly at the base, thins and becomes more marly, ironshot and conglomeratic northwards; the fauna includes bivalves (notably trigoniids), brachiopods, corals and the colonial serpulid [NAME] (See [NAME], M G, [NAME], A J M and Morigi, A N, 2000). | GREY | Spotted | Grey | ASTON [NAME] | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, BIOCLASTIC | Coarse grained |  | Fossils - Trigonia costata; [NAME] sp. | Fossils weather out leaving casts behind. | Field walls, foundations, ornamental rustic work and rockeries. | Cotswolds | 2009-05-07 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. =/= BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1932 | Salperton Limestone Formation | 1 | Upper Inferior Oolite | Pale grey to brown rubbly, fine- to coarse-grained ooidal, peloidal and finely shell-detrital packstone to grainstone (Clypeus Grit Member), generally with very shelly and coarsely shell-detrital ooidal grainstone and packstone (Upper Trigonia Grit Member) at base. | GREYBROWN | Mottled | Pale grey-brown. | [NAME] | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL | Fine-coarse grained | Bioturbation. | Rubbly. Golden -brown colour. Intensly bioturbated. |  | [NAME] restricted to local use in dry stone walling and rubblestone buildings. | N and W Cotswolds | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1933 | Birdlip Limestone | 1 | Lower Inferior Oolite | Predominantly pale coloured ooidal limestones of varying types; ferruginous and sandy ([NAME] Member), pisoidal and shelly (Crickley Member) at the base, unfossiliferous and cross bedded in the middle (Cleeve Cloud Member), shelly and marly in the upper part (Scottsquar Member), uppermost beds include sand and clay (Harford Member). | CREAM |  | Yellow-orange, cream, honey. | BIRDLIP [NAME] | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL | See Member descriptions below | See Member descriptions below | See Member descriptions below | See Member descriptions below | Varied use but most notable is the Cleeve Cloud Member which has been exploited as the best building stone sourced from the Cotswolds. Used internationally. | Widespread | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Witchell, E. (1882) The Geology of Stroud and the area drained by the [NAME], [NAME]; Price, A. (2010) Personal Communication | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1934 | Lower Limestone | 1933 | Crickley Member | Pale grey to yellowish brown limestones, dominated by medium- to coarse-grained ooidal shell-fragmental grainstone | BUFF | Uniform | Silvery-grey | CRICKLEY MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL | Medium grained | Cross-bedding. | Freestone with occasional small quartz pebbles. | [NAME] with weathering | Ashlar, mainly around [NAME] where it is thickest. | Cotswolds - mainly Frocester-Selsley area. | 2010-09-30 00:00:00 | D G Cameron | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area |  | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1935 | Frocester Hill Oolite | 1934 | Lower Limestone | Pale grey to yellowish brown limestones, dominated by medium- to coarse-grained ooidal shell-fragmental grainstone | BUFF | Uniform | Silvery-grey | CRICKLEY MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL | Medium grained | Cross-bedding. | Freestone with occasional small quartz pebbles. | [NAME] with weathering | Ashlar, mainly around [NAME] where it is thickest. | Cotswolds - mainly Frocester-Selsley area. | 2009-05-07 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. =/= BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1936 | [NAME] | 1934 | Lower Limestone | Pale grey to yellowish brown limestones, dominated by medium- to coarse-grained ooidal shell-fragmental grainstone | BUFF | Uniform | Silvery-grey | CRICKLEY MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL | Medium grained | Cross-bedding. | Freestone with occasional small quartz pebbles. | [NAME] with weathering | Ashlar, mainly around [NAME] where it is thickest. | Cotswolds - mainly Frocester-Selsley area. | 2009-05-07 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. =/= BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1937 | Pea Grit | 1933 |  | Rubbly, poorly sorted, shelly, shell-detrital, moderately to highly pisoidal grainstones and packstones with thin marl beds. | BUFF | Uniform | Grey | CRICKLEY MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, [NAME] | Coarse grained |  | Pisolitic / Oncolitic. Concentric growth rings visible in broken grains. | [NAME] with weathering | Weatherstones throughout the county. | Cotswolds - mainly between Stroud-Cleeve Hill area. | 2010-09-30 00:00:00 | D G Cameron | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area |  | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1938 | [NAME] | 1937 | Pea Grit | Rubbly, poorly sorted, shelly, shell-detrital, moderately to highly pisoidal grainstones and packstones with thin marl beds. | BUFF | Uniform | Grey | CRICKLEY MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, [NAME] | Coarse grained |  | Pisolitic / Oncolitic. Concentric growth rings visible in broken grains. | [NAME] with weathering | Weatherstones throughout the county. | Cotswolds - mainly between Stroud-Cleeve Hill area. | 2009-05-07 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. =/= BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1939 | Fiddlers Elbow Limestone | 1937 | Pea Grit | Rubbly, poorly sorted, shelly, shell-detrital, moderately to highly pisoidal grainstones and packstones with thin marl beds. | BUFF | Uniform | Grey | CRICKLEY MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE | Coarse grained |  | Pisolitic / Oncolitic. Concentric growth rings visible in broken grains. | [NAME] with weathering | Weatherstones throughout the county. | Cotswolds - mainly between Stroud-Cleeve Hill area. | 2009-05-07 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. =/= BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1940 | [NAME] | 1937 | Pea Grit | Rubbly, poorly sorted, shelly, shell-detrital, moderately to highly pisoidal grainstones and packstones with thin marl beds. | BUFF | Uniform | Grey | CRICKLEY MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, [NAME] | Coarse grained |  | Pisolitic / Oncolitic. Concentric growth rings visible in broken grains. | [NAME] with weathering | Weatherstones throughout the county. | Cotswolds - mainly between Stroud-Cleeve Hill area. | 2009-05-07 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. =/= BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1941 | Lower Freestone | 1933 | Cleeve Cloud Member | Off-white to pale brown well-sorted medium-, coarse- and very coarse-grained oolite grainstone, well bedded and cross-bedded; burrowed and sparsely shell-detrital in parts, locally (in east and north) yellowish and sandy.Locally highly shell detrital in lower part. | BUFF | Uniform | Buff - grey | CLEEVE CLOUD MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL | Medium grained | Cross-bedding, burrowed. | Massive oolitic freestone. | [NAME] with weathering | Widely used throughout Gloucestershire and internationally as a high quality building stone. | Cotswolds and wider Gloucestershire. | 2010-09-30 00:00:00 | D G Cameron | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area |  | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1942 | White Guiting | 1941 | Lower Freestone | Off-white to pale brown well-sorted medium-, coarse- and very coarse-grained oolite grainstone, well bedded and cross-bedded; burrowed and sparsely shell-detrital in parts, locally (in east and north) yellowish and sandy.Locally highly shell detrital in lower part. | BUFF | Uniform | Buff - grey | CLEEVE CLOUD MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL | Medium grained | Cross-bedding, burrowed. | Massive oolitic freestone. | [NAME] with weathering | Widely used throughout Gloucestershire and beyond as a high quality building stone. | Cotswolds and wider Gloucestershire. | 2009-05-07 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. =/= BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1943 | [NAME] | 1941 | Lower Freestone | Off-white to pale brown well-sorted medium-, coarse- and very coarse-grained oolite grainstone, well bedded and cross-bedded; burrowed and sparsely shell-detrital in parts, locally (in east and north) yellowish and sandy.Locally highly shell detrital in lower part. | BUFF | Uniform | Buff - grey | CLEEVE CLOUD MEMBER |  | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL | MEDIUM GRAINED | Cross-bedding, burrowed. | Massive oolitic freestone. | [NAME] with weathering | Widely used throughout Gloucestershire and beyond as a high quality building stone. | Cotswolds and wider Gloucestershire. | 2009-05-07 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. =/= BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1944 | [NAME] | 1941 | Lower Freestone | Off-white to pale brown well-sorted medium-, coarse- and very coarse-grained oolite grainstone, well bedded and cross-bedded; burrowed and sparsely shell-detrital in parts, locally (in east and north) yellowish and sandy.Locally highly shell detrital in lower part. | BUFF | Uniform | Buff - grey | CLEEVE CLOUD MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL | Medium grained | Cross-bedding, burrowed. | Massive oolitic freestone. | [NAME] with weathering | Widely used throughout Gloucestershire and beyond as a high quality building stone. | Cotswolds and wider Gloucestershire. | 2009-05-07 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. =/= BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1945 | Devil's [NAME] | 1941 | Lower Freestone | Off-white to pale brown well-sorted medium-, coarse- and very coarse-grained oolite grainstone, well bedded and cross-bedded; burrowed and sparsely shell-detrital in parts, locally (in east and north) yellowish and sandy.Locally highly shell detrital in lower part. | BUFF | Uniform | Buff - grey | CLEEVE CLOUD MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL | Medium grained | Cross-bedding, burrowed. | Massive oolitic freestone. | [NAME] with weathering | Widely used throughout Gloucestershire and beyond as a high quality building stone. | Cotswolds and wider Gloucestershire. | 2009-05-07 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. =/= BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1946 | [NAME] | 1941 | Lower Freestone | Off-white to pale brown well-sorted medium-, coarse- and very coarse-grained oolite grainstone, well bedded and cross-bedded; burrowed and sparsely shell-detrital in parts, locally (in east and north) yellowish and sandy.Locally highly shell detrital in lower part. | BUFF | Uniform | Buff - grey | CLEEVE CLOUD MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL | Medium grained | Cross-bedding, burrowed. | Massive oolitic freestone. | [NAME] with weathering | Widely used throughout Gloucestershire and beyond as a high quality building stone. | Cotswolds and wider Gloucestershire. | 2009-05-07 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. =/= BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1947 | Cleeve Hill Oolite | 1941 | Lower Freestone | Off-white to pale brown well-sorted medium-, coarse- and very coarse-grained oolite grainstone, well bedded and cross-bedded; burrowed and sparsely shell-detrital in parts, locally (in east and north) yellowish and sandy.Locally highly shell detrital in lower part. | BUFF | Uniform | Buff - grey | CLEEVE CLOUD MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL | Medium grained | Cross-bedding, burrowed. | Massive oolitic freestone. | [NAME] with weathering | Widely used throughout Gloucestershire and beyond as a high quality building stone. | Cotswolds and wider Gloucestershire. | 2009-05-07 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. =/= BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1948 | Upper Freestone | 1933 | [NAME] Member | Pale grey and brown medium- to coarse-grained peloid, ooid and shell fragment packstone and grainstone ('Upper Freestone'), with beds and lenses of grey to white, commonly highly fossiliferous marl/carbonate mudstone ('Oolite Marl'). These occur throughout the succession, though particularly in the lower part. Fauna dominated by brachiopods; characteristic fossils include the plicate terebratulid [NAME]. | PALE-GREY |  | Grey | SCOTTSQUAR MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL | Medium grained | Cross-bedded. | Marly freestone. | [NAME] with weathering | Mostly a source of lime, but was used as a facing stone for some buildings in and around [NAME]. | Cotswolds - mainly around [NAME] | 2010-09-30 00:00:00 | D G Cameron | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area |  | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1949 | [NAME] | 1948 | Upper Freestone | Pale grey and brown medium- to coarse-grained peloid, ooid and shell fragment packstone and grainstone ('Upper Freestone'), with beds and lenses of grey to white, commonly highly fossiliferous marl/carbonate mudstone ('Oolite Marl'). These occur throughout the succession, though particularly in the lower part. Fauna dominated by brachiopods; characteristic fossils include the plicate terebratulid [NAME]. | PALE-GREY |  | Grey | SCOTTSQUAR MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL | Medium grained | Cross-bedded. | Marly freestone. | [NAME] with weathering | Mostly a source of lime, but was used as a facing stone for some buildings in and around [NAME]. | Cotswolds - mainly around [NAME] | 2009-05-07 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. =/= BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1950 | Stonesfield Slates | 1933 | Tilestones | Interbedded yellow silty fine-grained sand, cemented in parts ('[NAME]), grey and brown mudstone, shelly and sandy in parts ('Snowshill Clay' and '[NAME]) and variably sandy and ooidal limestone ('Tilestone'). The succession is characterised by rapid lateral facies transitions and a mix of fully marine and quasi-non-marine facies. | [NAME] | Variable | Varied | HARFORD MEMBER | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE | Clay - medium-grained | Laminations. | Includes uncemented/poorly cemented sandstone unit ([NAME]), thin grey clay ([NAME]) and Tilestone with rolled oolite fragments. |  | Roofing slates | N & E Cotswolds & Oxforshire | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; Gloucestershire 1; The Cotswolds, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1951 | Marlstone | 1 | [NAME] | Sandy, shell-fragmental 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. The iron content (as ooids, altered shell material or in the groundmass) is berthierine (dark green iron-rich layered silicate formed in low-oxygen marine conditions), altering to siderite. Fossil content variable throughout but locally abundant especially in limestone beds. | DARK-BUFF | Uniform | [NAME] | [NAME] FORMATION | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE | Medium grained | Cross-bedding. | Soft and liable to spalling. | Relatively soft and liable to spalling. | Genrally low status buildings. | Used along the outcrop along the Cotswold scarp, notbaly between Woton-Under-Edge and Uley. | 2009-05-07 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. =/= Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; [NAME]; The Severn Vale and Forest of Dean, Yale University Press | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1952 | Blue Lias | 1 |  | Thinly interbedded limestone (laminated, nodular, or massive and persistent) and calcareous mudstone or siltstone (locally laminated). Individual limestones are typically 0.10-0.30m thick. In some areas, intervening mudstone units with relatively few limestone beds. | GREY |  | Grey | BLUE LIAS FORMATION | JURASSIC | LIMESTONE |  | Thinly interbedded. | Not Possible Often mistaken for Purbeck Marble.  YES IT IS ONCE IT IS IN A BUILDING AND POLISHED. Numerous different characteristics of use. |  | Noted as being used in Gloucestershire churches as shafts, paving and gravestones. | Severn Vale | 2009-05-06 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; [NAME]; The Severn Vale and Forest of Dean, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. =/= BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1953 | Lilstock Formation | 1 | Rhaetic | Includes Cotham Member (grey and grey-green shales and siltstones) and Langport Member (porcellanous limestone below, calcareous mudstone above). | GREY |  | Grey and grey-green. | [NAME] | TRIASSIC | LIMESTONE | Silt - fine-grained | Laminations | Porcellanous limestone |  | Ornamental stone, cut and polished for indoor use, or undressed for outside walls and rockeries. | Severn Vale | 2010-09-30 00:00:00 | D G Cameron | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. =/= Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; [NAME]; The Severn Val | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1954 | White Lias | 1953 |  | Dominantly pale grey and cream limestones with mudstone partings, which tend to be irregular in their lower part but hard and well bedded towards the top. | GREY |  | Grey | LANGPORT MEMBER | TRIASSIC | LIMESTONE |  |  | Mudstone partings. Popular as kerbs, flags and coursed rubble. |  | Used in several medieval chuches, intermixed with red or purple sandstone. Popular as kerbs, flags and coursed rubble. | Severn Vale | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Earp, J.R. & Haines, B.A. (1971) British Regional Geology: The Welsh Borderland, Memoir of the Geological Survey =/= GGT Sites Database =/= Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; [NAME]; The Severn Vale and Forest of Dean, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1955 | Arden Sandstone | 1 |  | Heterolithic, consisting of grey, green and purple mudstones interbedded with paler grey-green to [NAME] coloured siltstones and fine- to medium-grained, varicoloured green, brown, [NAME], mauve sandstones; beds of conglomerate occur locally. Laminated and thinly interbedded sediments are commonly extensively bioturbated and show structures indicative of thixotropic deformation. The siltstones and finer sandstones show small-scale ripple drift cross bedding; thicker sandstone beds show trough and planar cross bedding. The proportion of fine to coarse clastics varies laterally within the Formation. The thicker sandstone units, composed of several individual beds, have a lenticular geometry and occupy the inferred former courses of fluvial distributary channels in a deltaic or estuarine environment. Less arenaceous, mudstone and siltstone-dominated successions occupy intervening interdistributary areas. The Arden Sandstone Formation is differentiated from the reddish-brown, blocky weathering mudstones of adjacent formations by its predominantly greenish grey colour, the presence of a significant, though often subordinate, proportion of sandstone, and the predominance of finely laminated lithologies throughout. | BUFF |  | Buff - grey | ARDEN SANDSTONE FORMATION | TRIASSIC | SANDSTONE | Medium grained | Cross-bedding. | Variable |  | Mainly used for churches and large farmhouses from medieval times. Some isolated blocks can be found in Tewkesbury Abbey. Last apparent use of the stone was for the 1829 RC chapel alongside Hartpury church. | Severn Vale | 2009-05-06 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Earp, J.R. & Haines, B.A. (1971) British Regional Geology: The Welsh Borderland, Memoir of the Geological Survey =/= GGT Sites Database =/= Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; [NAME]; The Severn Vale and Forest of Dean, Yale University Press | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1956 | Lower Keuper Sandstone | 1 |  | Sandstones, red, brown and grey, commonly pebbly or conglomeratic at the bases of beds, interbedded with red and brown siltstones and mudstones. Some scattered pellets of red marl. | RED | Mottled | Red-grey | BROMSGROVE SANDSTONE FORMATION | TRIASSIC | SANDSTONE | Medium grained | Cross-beding, graded, bedding, interbedding, fining upwards sequences. |  |  | Widely used as a building stone around the outcrop, but was not transported far. | Midlands | 2009-05-06 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm =/= Earp, J.R. & Haines, B.A. (1971) British Regional Geology: The Welsh Borderland, Memoir of the Geological Survey =/= GGT Sites Database =/= Green, G.W. British Regional Geology:Bristol and [NAME] | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1957 | New Red Sandstone | 1 | Bunter Sandstone | Cross bedded aeolian sandstones, mainly brick red, soft, medium-grained. [NAME] mottling common. | RED | Mottled | Red | BRIDGNORTH SANDSTONE FORMATION | PERMIAN | SANDSTONE, MEDIUM-GRAINED | Medium grained | Cross-bedding. | Non-pebbly, highly cross-bedded. | Poorly cemented, can be crushed between fingers. | Widely used as a building stone around the outcrop, but was not transported far. | Midlands | 2009-05-06 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm =/= Earp, J.R. & Haines, B.A. (1971) British Regional Geology: The Welsh Borderland, Memoir of the Geological Survey =/= GGT Sites Database | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1958 | Pennant Sandstone | 1 |  | Green-grey and blue-grey, feldspathic, micaceous, lithic arenites ("Pennant" sandstones) of southerly provenance, with thin mudstone/siltstone and seatearth interbeds and mainly thin coals; the lithologies are commonly arranged in fining-upwards channel-fill sequences. |  |  |  | PENNANT SANDSTONE FORMATION | CARBONIFEROUS | SANDSTONE |  |  |  |  | One of the regions most important and widely used building stones, it is extensivey used in the westrn part of the county and has been exported widely for use nationally. | National | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Welch, F.B.A. & Trotter, [NAME] (1961) Geology of the Country around Monmouth and Chepstow, Memoir of the Geological Survey, Sheets 233 and 250 (England & Wales) =/= Earp, J.R. & Haines, B.A. (1971) British Regional Geology: The Welsh Borderland, Memoir of the Geological Survey =/= GGT Sites Database =/= Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; [NAME]; The Severn Vale and Forest of Dean, Yale University Press | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1959 | Forest of Dean Stone Blue | 1998 | Pennant [NAME] of Dean | Green-grey and blue-grey, feldspathic, micaceous, lithic arenites ("Pennant" sandstones) of southerly provenance, with thin mudstone/siltstone and seatearth interbeds and mainly thin coals; the lithologies are commonly arranged in fining-upwards channel-fill sequences. | GREY |  | Blue, Grey, Green | PENNANT SANDSTONE FORMATION | CARBONIFEROUS | SANDSTONE | Medium grained | Some cross bedding, sole marks, generally massive. | High quality, uniform sandstone. |  | One of the regions most important and widely used building stones, it is extensivey used in the westrn part of the county and has been exported widely for use nationally. | National | 2009-05-05 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Welch, F.B.A. & Trotter, [NAME] (1961) Geology of the Country around Monmouth and Chepstow, Memoir of the Geological Survey, Sheets 233 and 250 (England & Wales) =/= Earp, J.R. & Haines, B.A. (1971) British Regional Geology: The Welsh Borderland, Memoir of the Geological Survey =/= GGT Sites Database =/= Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; [NAME]; The Severn Vale and Forest of Dean, Yale University Press | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1960 | Forest of Dean Stone Grey | 1998 | Pennant [NAME] of Dean | Green-grey and blue-grey, feldspathic, micaceous, lithic arenites ("Pennant" sandstones) of southerly provenance, with thin mudstone/siltstone and seatearth interbeds and mainly thin coals; the lithologies are commonly arranged in fining-upwards channel-fill sequences. | GREY |  | Blue, Grey, Green | PENNANT SANDSTONE FORMATION | CARBONIFEROUS | SANDSTONE | Medium grained | Some cross bedding, sole marks, generally massive. | High quality, uniform sandstone. |  | One of the regions most important and widely used building stones, it is extensivey used in the westrn part of the county and has been exported widely for use nationally. | National | 2009-05-05 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Welch, F.B.A. & Trotter, [NAME] (1961) Geology of the Country around Monmouth and Chepstow, Memoir of the Geological Survey, Sheets 233 and 250 (England & Wales) =/= Earp, J.R. & Haines, B.A. (1971) British Regional Geology: The Welsh Borderland, Memoir of the Geological Survey =/= GGT Sites Database =/= Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; [NAME]; The Severn Vale and Forest of Dean, Yale University Press | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1961 | Coleford Member | 1998 | Pennant [NAME] of Dean | Predominantly a thick-bedded, coarse-grained sandstone of "Pennant"-type (lithic arenite), with subordinate interbeds of grey and green mudstone with ironstone concretions and coal. The sandstone is trough cross-bedded to planar bedded and beds commonly show erosive scours. Sandstone beds from beneath the Coleford High Delf seam are typically fine- to medium-grained. Coal seams up to 1.5 m thick are present within the succession. | GREYGREEN |  | Grey-green | COLEFORD MEMBER | CARBONIFEROUS | SANDSTONE | Medium grained | Some cross bedding, sole marks, generally massive. | High quality, uniform sandstone. |  | One of the regions most important and widely used building stones, it is extensivey used in the westrn part of the county and has been exported widely for use nationally. | National | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Welch, F.B.A. & Trotter, [NAME] (1961) Geology of the Country around Monmouth and Chepstow, Memoir of the Geological Survey, Sheets 233 and 250 (England & Wales) =/= Earp, J.R. & Haines, B.A. (1971) British Regional Geology: The Welsh Borderland, Memoir of the Geological Survey =/= GGT Sites Database =/= Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; [NAME]; The Severn Vale and Forest of Dean, Yale University Press | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1962 | Cromhall Sandstone | 1 | Drybrook Sandstone | Sandstone with subordinate shale of Lower Drybrook Sandstone and finer grained sandstone with wind blown quartz of [NAME] divided by calcareous Drybrook Limestone. | RED |  | Red-pink or yellow. | CROMHALL SANDSTONE FORMATION | CARBONIFEROUS | SANDSTONE | Medium - coarse grained | Conglomoritic fining upwards. | Rounded grains, some beds conglomeritic. |  | Minor localised use as a building stone, largley in agricultural buildings. Used in some early buildings. | Forest of Dean | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; [NAME]; The Severn Vale and Forest of Dean, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and Gloucester Region | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1963 | Drybrook Sandstone | 1962 | Cromhall Sandstone | Sandstone with subordinate shale of Lower Drybrook Sandstone and finer grained sandstone with wind blown quartz of [NAME] divided by calcareous Drybrook Limestone. | RED |  | Red-pink or yellow. | CROMHALL SANDSTONE FORMATION | CARBONIFEROUS | SANDSTONE | Medium - coarse grained | Conglomoritic fining upwards. | Rounded grains, some beds conglomeritic. |  | Minor localised use as a building stone, largley in agricultural buildings. Used in some early buildings. | Forest of Dean | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; [NAME]; The Severn Vale and Forest of Dean, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and Gloucester Region | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1964 | [NAME] | 1 | Whitehead Limestone | Mainly ooidal limestones, with subordinate skeletal, peloidal and oncolitic limestones and calcite mudstones. Mainly dolomitised on the southeast and east crop of Forest of Dean; haematised in NW. | RED |  | Red in NE; Grey in SW | CLIFTON DOWN LIMESTONE FORMATION | CARBONIFEROUS | LIMESTONE | Medium grained | Oolitic | Haematised in NE; Oolitic in SW |  | Mainly used for coursed rubble and drystone walling in the local area. | Forest of Dean | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; [NAME]; The Severn Vale and Forest of Dean, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and Gloucester Region | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1965 | Gully Oolite | 1 | [NAME] | Medium- to thick-bedded, pale grey, oolitic grainstone with subordinate beds of fine-grained skeletal packstones. Cross-laminated and cross-bedded, some burrowing. Locally dolomitized, especially on the southeast and east crop of the South Wales Coalfield and in the Chepstow area. A palaeokarstic surface overlain by a green/red mudstone/clay palaeosol caps the Formation. | SILVGR |  | Grey-white; red | GULLY OOLITE FORMATION | CARBONIFEROUS | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL | Medium grained |  | Haematised in central [NAME] basin, contains vugs and cavities. Karstic features. | No description | Mainly used for coursed rubble and drystone walling in the local area. | Forest of Dean | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; [NAME]; The Severn Vale and Forest of Dean, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and Gloucester Region | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1966 | Black Rock Limestone | 1 | Lower Dolomite | Dolomite or highly dolomitised limestone. Usually very uniform in character consisting of finely crystalline dolomite with coarser crystalline dolomite in places. Dolomitisation has usually destroyed all fossils and sedimentary structure, although occasional patches of crinoidal limestone do survive in places. | BLACK |  | Black, blue-grey | BLACK ROCK LIMESTONE SUBGROUP | CARBONIFEROUS | DOLOSTONE | Fine-Medium grained |  | Hard, dolomitised limestone. |  | Mainly used for coursed rubble and drystone walling in the local area. | Forest of Dean | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Hunt 1858; Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; [NAME]; The Severn Vale and Forest of Dean, Yale University Press =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and Gloucester Region | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1967 | Lower Limestone Shales | 1 | Lower Limestone Shale Group | [NAME] and black shales with interbedded limestones. Limestones are visibly coarse-/fine-grained crinoidal bioclastic, sometimes oolitic rocks. | GREY | Uniform | Grey, red, blue, green. | AVON GROUP | CARBONIFEROUS | LIMESTONE | Coarse grained | Cross beding, ripples, shelly lenses. | Cystalline, fossiliferous limestone. |  | Used for a variety of purposes from block stone, to walling stone, paving and aggregate. Exported from the Forest of Dean commercially. | Mainly Forest of Dean, but exported outside the area. | 2009-05-05 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm =/= Welch, F.B.A. & Trotter, [NAME] (1961) Geology of the Country around Monmouth and Chepstow, Memoir of the Geological Survey, Sheets 233 and 250 (England & Wales) | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1968 | Tintern Sandstone | 1 |  | Red / buff-yellow sandstone with local lenticles of pebbles and subordinate marl partings. | BROWN | Uniform | Brown, red, grey, yellow, [NAME]. | TINTERN SANDSTONE FORMATION | CARBONIFEROUS to CARBONIFEROUS | SANDSTONE, MEDIUM-GRAINED |  | Cross-beding, graded, bedding, interbedding, fining upwards sequences. | Fine-coarse, conglomeritic sandstone. |  | Most notably, in Tintern Abbey, and in and around the village of Tintern. Also use around the edge of the Forest of Dean where it outcrops as a building stone. | Wye Valley & Forest of Dean | 2009-05-05 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Welch, F.B.A. & Trotter, [NAME] (1961) Geology of the Country around Monmouth and Chepstow, Memoir of the Geological Survey, Sheets 233 and 250 (England & Wales) | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1969 | Devonian Sandstone | 1 | Old Red Sandstone |  |  |  |  | OLD RED SANDSTONE SUPERGROUP | DEVONIAN to DEVONIAN | SANDSTONE |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2010-09-30 00:00:00 | D G Cameron | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area |  | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1970 | Brownstones | 1 |  | Red, brown and purple fluvial sandstones with red mudstone interbeds. | BROWN | Mottled | Red, brown, purple. | BROWNSTONES FORMATION | DEVONIAN to DEVONIAN | SANDSTONE, MEDIUM-GRAINED | Medium grained | Cross-bedding, graded, bedding, sole marks, ripples. Fining upwards sequences. |  |  | Used to produce roofing tiles from thinly bedded strata, and building stones, steps, paving and ornamental mouldings from thicker beds. | West Gloucestershire / Forest of Dean | 2009-05-05 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Earp, J.R. & Haines, B.A. (1971) British Regional Geology: The Welsh Borderland, Memoir of the Geological Survey =/= GGT Sites Database =/= Green, G.W. (1992) British Regional Geology: Bristol and [NAME], Memoir of the British Geological Survey. | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1971 | Puddingstone | 1 | Quartz Conglomerate | Variably grey, red, purple conglomerate composed largely of vein quartz, and occasional quartzite, with less frequent jasper, and decomposed igneous rocks, set in a sandy matrix with siliceous cement. | RED | Spotted | Red-grey | QUARTZ CONGLOMERATE FORMATION (FOREST OF DEAN) | DEVONIAN to DEVONIAN | CONGLOMERATE | Pebble grade | Some graded bedding. Interbedded with finer sandstones and mudstones. | Large quartz clasts in a coarse sandstone matrix. Also inlcudes many other exotic minerals and lithic clasts. Very hard and resistant to erosion. |  | The large pebbles make it difficult to work, but it has been used in the central chambers of long barrows and in some local cottages. Its main use has been in the production of quorn stones. | Forest of Dean | 2009-05-05 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Welch, F.B.A. & Trotter, [NAME] (1961) Geology of the Country around Monmouth and Chepstow, Memoir of the Geological Survey, Sheets 233 and 250 (England & Wales) | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1972 | [NAME] Formation | 1 |  | Interbedded purple, brown and green sandstones and red mudstones with intraformational conglomerates containing calcrete clasts. | DARK-RED | Mottled | Red | ST MAUGHANS FORMATION | DEVONIAN to DEVONIAN | SANDSTONE | Fine grained | Cross-bedding, thinly bedded/laminated | Fine-grained marly sandstones | Poorly cemented and splits along laminations. | Not suitable as a general building stone, but has been used to produce roofing tiles, mainly on agricultural buildings and outbuildings in the Forest of Dean. | Forest of Dean | 2009-05-05 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1973 | Psammosteus Limestone | 1 |  | Grey concretionary limestone. | GREY | Uniform | Grey | BISHOP'S FROME LIMESTONE MEMBER | DEVONIAN to DEVONIAN | LIMESTONE |  |  |  |  | Generally in areas bordering the outcrop through the southern part of the Severn Vale. | Gloucestershire | 2009-05-04 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Earp, J.R. & Haines, B.A. (1971) British Regional Geology: The Welsh Borderland, Memoir of the Geological Survey =/= GGT Sites Database | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1974 | Clifford's Mesne Sandstone | 1 | [NAME] | Micaceous yellow-buff sandstones, locally flaggy and cross bedded with some shaley horizons. | PALE-YELLOW |  | Buff - grey | [NAME] MESNE SANDSTONE | SILURIAN | SANDSTONE, FINE-GRAINED | Fine grained | Flaggy and cross-bedded. | Contains small blcack phosphatic particles. |  | Clifford's Mesne village - notbaly in the church and in some older local buildings. | Clifford's Mesne village | 2009-05-04 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Earp, J.R. & Haines, B.A. (1971) British Regional Geology: The Welsh Borderland, Memoir of the Geological Survey =/= GGT Sites Database | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1975 | May Hill Sandstone | 1 |  | Grey and brown sandstones and conglomerates with subordinate mudstone, as well as flaggy, fine-grained sandstone and siltstone with impersistent, grey limestone. |  |  |  | MAY HILL SANDSTONE GROUP | SILURIAN | SANDSTONE |  |  |  |  | Mainly in agricultural buildings and walls, but used in some older local cottages. |  | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/home.cfm =/= Welch, F.B.A. & Trotter, [NAME] (1961) Geology of the Country around Monmouth and Chepstow, Memoir of the Geological Survey, Sheets 233 and 250 (England & Wales) | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1976 | Huntley Hill Sandstone | 1975 | May Hill Sandstone | Red-grey-brown sandstones, conglomerates and mudstones, with flaggy, fine grained snadstones and impersistent grey limestone. | DARK-RED | Uniform | Red | HUNTLEY HILL FORMATION | SILURIAN | SANDSTONE | Coarse grained | Graded bedding, cross-bedding. | Coarse grey-red sandstones and conglomerates. Rounded and heamatised quartz grains. Clast supported. | Can be poorly cemented so can become soft and friable. | Mainly in agricultural buildings and walls, but used in some older local cottages. | The area surrounding May Hill. | 2009-05-04 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | [NAME], D. (2008) West Gloucestershire Geodiversity Audit and LGAP,  Gloucestershire Geology Trust =/= GGT Sites Database | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1977 | Huntley Sandstone | 1975 | [NAME] | Often characterised by slickesided surfaces, polished faces and other tectonic structures. |  | Uniform | Greys sligthly | HUNTLEY QUARRY BEDS | SILURIAN to SILURIAN | SANDSTONE |  | Some graded bedding and tool marks. | Volcanicalstic sediments containing volcanic glass clasts. |  | Mainly used as an aggregate but pieces have been identified used in the walls of cottages nearby. | Very localised to the area surrounding [NAME], WNW of the village of Huntley. | 2009-05-04 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | O'Connor, H. (2008) Huntley Quarry Geological Reserve Guide, Gloucestershire Geology Trust =/= GGT Sites Database | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1978 | Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Ordovician | 1 |  | Dolerite intrusion, concordant with bedding (sill) intruded into Early Ordovician sediments. | DARK-GREEN | Uniform | Black-green | UNNAMED IGNEOUS INTRUSION, ORDOVICIAN | ORDOVICIAN to ORDOVICIAN | MICROGABBRO | Fine grained | None | Hard, heavy. |  | Some blocks seen in walls of local buildings but not generally used as a building stone. | [NAME] | 2010-10-01 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Personal observations | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1979 | Malvernian | 1 | Malvernian | Often characterised by slickesided surfaces, polished faces and other tectonic structures. | BLACK | Mottled | Greys slightly and red veining can be picked out by weathering. | MALVERNS COMPLEX | PROTEROZOIC to PROTEROZOIC | METAMORPHIC ROCK, MIGMATITIC |  | None | Can be extremely varied in composition, colour and texture due to its extremely altered and mylonitised state. Can consist of granites, schist, gniess and pegmatite veins. Most easily recognised in the area as the only metamorphic rocks to be found. |  | Predominantly used in rough walling althoug it is found in some of the older cottages and agricultural buildings. | Small area around the southern end of the Malvern Hills in NW Gloucestershire and into adjacent areas of Herefordshire and [NAME] | 2009-05-04 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Earp, J.R. & Haines, B.A. (1971) British Regional Geology: The Welsh Borderland, Memoir of the Geological Survey =/= GGT Sites Database | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1980 | Downend Sandstone | 1 |  | ? |  |  |  | DOWNEND MEMBER | CARBONIFEROUS | SANDSTONE |  |  |  |  | Used in building in Gloucestershire | Gloucestershire | 2011-05-18 00:00:00 | D Cameron | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Buildings sheet, BGS Lexicon | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1981 | [NAME] | 1 |  | ? |  |  |  | [NAME] MEMBER | CARBONIFEROUS | SANDSTONE |  |  |  |  | Used in building in Gloucestershire | Gloucestershire | 2011-05-18 00:00:00 | D Cameron | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Buildings sheet, BGS Lexicon | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1982 | Quartzitic Sandstone | 1 |  | ? |  |  |  | QUARTZITIC SANDSTONE FORMATION | CARBONIFEROUS | SANDSTONE |  |  |  |  | Used in building in Gloucestershire | Gloucestershire | 2011-05-18 00:00:00 | D Cameron | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Buildings sheet, BGS Lexicon | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1983 | Redcliffe Sandstone | 1 |  | ? |  |  |  | REDCLIFFE SANDSTONE | TRIASSIC | SANDSTONE |  |  |  |  | Used in building in Gloucestershire | Gloucestershire | 2011-05-18 00:00:00 | D Cameron | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Buildings sheet, BGS Lexicon | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1984 | Sandstone | 1 |  | ? |  |  |  | PARENT DATA NOT YET ENTERED [HIERARCHY CODE] |  | SANDSTONE |  |  |  |  | Used in building in Gloucestershire | Gloucestershire | 2011-05-18 00:00:00 | D Cameron | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Buildings sheet, BGS Lexicon | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1985 | Carboniferous Sandstones | 1 |  | ? |  |  |  | CARBONIFEROUS ROCKS (UNDIFFERENTIATED) | CARBONIFEROUS to CARBONIFEROUS | SANDSTONE |  |  |  |  | Used in building in Gloucestershire | Gloucestershire | 2011-05-18 00:00:00 | D Cameron | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Buildings sheet, BGS Lexicon | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1986 | Jurassic Limestone | 1 |  | ? |  |  |  | JURASSIC ROCKS (UNDIFFERENTIATED) | JURASSIC to JURASSIC | LIMESTONE |  |  |  |  | Used in building in Gloucestershire | Gloucestershire | 2011-05-18 00:00:00 | D Cameron | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Buildings sheet, BGS Lexicon | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1987 | Jurasic Oolitic Limestone | 1986 |  | ? |  |  |  | JURASSIC ROCKS (UNDIFFERENTIATED) | JURASSIC to JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL |  |  |  |  | Used in building in Gloucestershire | Gloucestershire | 2011-05-18 00:00:00 | D Cameron | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Buildings sheet, BGS Lexicon | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1988 | [NAME] Member | 1933 |  | Predominantly pale coloured ooidal limestones of varying types; ferruginous and sandy ([NAME] Member) | CREAM |  | Yellow-orange, cream, honey. | LECKHAMPTON MEMBER | JURASSIC to JURASSIC | LIMESTONE, OOIDAL |  |  |  |  | Used in building in Gloucestershire | Gloucestershire | 2011-05-18 00:00:00 | D Cameron | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Buildings sheet, BGS Lexicon | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1989 | Limestone | 1 |  | ? |  |  |  | PARENT DATA NOT YET ENTERED [HIERARCHY CODE] |  | LIMESTONE |  |  |  |  | Used in building in Gloucestershire | Gloucestershire | 2011-05-18 00:00:00 | D Cameron | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Buildings sheet | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1990 | Granite | 1 |  | ? |  |  |  | PARENT DATA NOT YET ENTERED [HIERARCHY CODE] |  | GRANITE |  |  |  |  | Used in building in Gloucestershire | Gloucestershire | 2011-05-18 00:00:00 | D Cameron | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Buildings sheet | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1991 | [NAME] | 1 |  | ? |  |  |  | CARBONIFEROUS LIMESTONE SUPERGROUP | CARBONIFEROUS | LIMESTONE |  |  |  |  | Used in building in Gloucestershire | Gloucestershire | 2011-05-18 00:00:00 | D Cameron | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Buildings sheet | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1992 | [NAME] | 1 |  | ? |  |  |  | PARENT DATA NOT YET ENTERED [HIERARCHY CODE] |  | LIMESTONE |  |  |  |  | Used in building in Gloucestershire | Gloucestershire | 2011-05-18 00:00:00 | D Cameron | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Buildings sheet | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1994 | Stone Flags | 1 |  | ? |  |  |  | PARENT DATA NOT YET ENTERED [HIERARCHY CODE] |  | STONE |  |  |  |  | Used in building in Gloucestershire | Gloucestershire | 2011-05-18 00:00:00 | D Cameron | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Buildings sheet | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1995 | [NAME] | 1994 |  | ? |  |  |  | PARENT DATA NOT YET ENTERED [HIERARCHY CODE] |  | LIMESTONE, FLAGGY |  |  |  |  | Used in building in Gloucestershire | Gloucestershire | 2011-05-18 00:00:00 | D Cameron | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Buildings sheet | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1996 | Sandstone Flags | 1994 |  | ? |  |  |  | PARENT DATA NOT YET ENTERED [HIERARCHY CODE] |  | SANDSTONE |  |  |  |  | Used in building in Gloucestershire | Gloucestershire | 2011-05-18 00:00:00 | D Cameron | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Buildings sheet | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1997 | Slate | 1 |  | ? |  |  |  | PARENT DATA NOT YET ENTERED [HIERARCHY CODE] |  | SLATE |  |  |  |  | Used in building in Gloucestershire | Gloucestershire | 2011-05-18 00:00:00 | D Cameron | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Buildings sheet | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1998 | Forest of Dean Stone | 1958 | Pennant [NAME] of Dean | Green-grey and blue-grey, feldspathic, micaceous, lithic arenites ("Pennant" sandstones) of southerly provenance, with thin mudstone/siltstone and seatearth interbeds and mainly thin coals; the lithologies are commonly arranged in fining-upwards channel-fill sequences. | GREY |  | Blue, Grey, Green | PENNANT SANDSTONE FORMATION | CARBONIFEROUS | SANDSTONE | Medium grained | Some cross bedding, sole marks, generally massive. | High quality, uniform sandstone. |  | One of the regions most important and widely used building stones, it is extensivey used in the westrn part of the county and has been exported widely for use nationally. | National | 2009-05-05 00:00:00 | [NAME] | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Welch, F.B.A. & Trotter, [NAME] (1961) Geology of the Country around Monmouth and Chepstow, Memoir of the Geological Survey, Sheets 233 and 250 (England & Wales) =/= Earp, J.R. & Haines, B.A. (1971) British Regional Geology: The Welsh Borderland, Memoir of the Geological Survey =/= GGT Sites Database =/= Price, A (2002) Geology and Building Materials; In: Very & Brooks, (Eds), The Buildings of England; [NAME]; The Severn Vale and Forest of Dean, Yale University Press | 2012-05-16 10:20:43
1999 | Middle Coal Measures Sandstones | 1985 |  | ? |  |  |  | SOUTH WALES MIDDLE COAL MEASURES [NAME] | CARBONIFEROUS | SANDSTONE |  |  |  |  | ? | Gloucestershire | 2011-05-27 00:00:00 | D Cameron | Gloucestershire County Council | [NAME] heritage Atlas Area | Sources Sheet | 2012-05-16 10:20:43