Dry Stone Walling Bursary Training Portfolio
16.07.18 - 12.07.19
P. Jeyacheya
Workbook Two
Workbook Two consists of five questions. Together the questions cover a range of topics that are useful to a dry stone waller. Questions 1 & 2 cover the classification of rocks and how to calcuate the volumes & tonnage needed for building a dry stone wall. Questions 3 & 4 cover the structure of a dry stone wall and the potential faults that could occur for a number of reasons. The final question looks at how a dry stone wall provides habitat for a variety of organisms.
The answers are mostly highlights and are not intended to give a full understanding of all the topics covered. Instead they serve as an introduction that should be build on over time and with experience.
Workbook 2: Rock Classification
Q1a:
Give an example of walling stone for each rock classification and type and describe its characteristics:
Rock Classification
Sedimentary
Walling Stone - Type
Limestone
Caithness Flagstone
Sandstones
Pennant
Old & New Red
York Stone
Rock Classification
Naturally porous allowing rainwater to enter and leave the stone easily
Most are easy to dress with a walling hammer
Hard and durable where the quartx content is high
Rock Classification
Igneous
Walling Stone - Type
Granite
Characteristics
Irregular non-bedded lumps
Usually hard, dense, brittle and splintery
Good for single-stone-width walls
Create distinctive uncoursed random wall
Rock Classification
Metamorphic
Formed through the alteration of other rock types through: geological time, heat and pressure
Walling Stone - Type
Schist
Gneiss
Slate
Kirby Stone
Characteristics
Hard crystal structure
Lack porosity
Have 'cleavage planes'
Easier to split along bedding planes
Dense and durable
Cclour-fast
From your experience, which type of stone could you use for for the following wall types:
Field walling
Limestones
Sandstones
Granite
Garden walls
Blue forest marble
Sandstones
Bradford Delph
Decorative features
Bedded sandstones
Kirby stone
Yorkstone
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Our Services
Projects covered include:
- Free estimates & quotations
- Traditional dry stone walling
- Retaining Walls
- Cheek ends / wall heads
- Garden walls
- Field Walls
- Gap Repairs
- New walls with new or reclaimed stone
- Boundary walls
- Ornamental walls feature walls
- Dry stone walls with mortared coping stones
- Mortared walls
Areas We Cover
Lancashire boroughs of
- Rossendale
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Hyndburn
- Burnley
- Pendle
- and further afield ...
Services also extended to our nearest neighbours in:
- Todmorden
- Hebden Bridge
- Sowerby Bridge
- Littleborough
- ...and everywhere within that geographical circle
