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Ham Hill stone, Ham stone
A Somerset stone, representative of the lower part of the Upper Lias, quarried in the Ham Hill quarry near Yeovil and used widely for building purposes in the area.
1889H. B. Woodward in Proc. Bath Nat. Hist. & Antiquarian Club VI. 182 The celebrated building-stone of Ham Hill, near Yeovil..is not without geological interest... The Ham Hill stone is mainly composed of sand and comminuted shells. 1918Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. LXXIV. 169 At Ham Hill..the portion of moorei date is exposed in the big quarry on the hill and the main mass of it is a ‘freestone’—the celebrated Ham-Hill Building-Stone. In the big quarry the sequence is as follows: 1. Sand..2. ‘Riddings’..3. Ham-Hill Stone. 1936G. Pollett Song for Sixpence ix. 76 This grey Ham stone is most satisfying to the eye. 1961Countryman LVIII. iii. 439 Sophisticated strangers are not yet trying to buy the lovely old Ham⁓stone farmhouses. |