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I live in Weston Underwood on the Northampton and Bucks border sitting
on the Limestone belt that runs diagonally across England from Bath
to the Wash.
Jurassic Limestone, 135-180 million years old, is still being quarried
a mile up the road at Weston Quarry.
This is the stone in my garden – unfortunately near the surface
in places - it is the stone used in most of the buildings around here,
and I can see it still standing, and used to great effect, in the
churches, half a dozen all still standing after 800 years within 5 miles of the quarry. |
It is exciting to think I am
working stone that was being
formed as Cetiosaurus,
and all his relatives
from the Jurassic period, was pushing his 30 tons through the fields
and browsing on what was then tropical vegetation round here.
Some of his bones were found near Clifton Reynes and are now in
the Cowper Museum in Olney.
While working the stone I find my ideas changing as the stone reveals
itself under my tools.
This relationship between the stone and myself often produces unexpected
results and is what excites me and inspires me to continue.
Here it is, unique in its range of
colours and features.
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