Soft limestone capable of being easily worked.
they used clunch for most domestic building
as modifier sections of clunch wall in the stable
Example sentencesExamples
- The original walls were clunch and were pilfered by a bastard son of Henry the Eighth to build Berkhamsted Place.
- As it's a large square Norman keep and it's still in good condition, clunch can be a very hard stone and weather well.
- Another small area of clunch is noted where a garden path crosses the western end of a low bank to the east, possibly indicating a wall alignment, although no masonry evidence is otherwise noted.
- There is a great variety of materials in the older buildings but a particular characteristic is the use of Chilmark Stone and a chequered pattern of clunch and napped flint.
- There are useful resources within the parish: flints for tool making and building, a band of hard chalk called clunch also for building, and areas of woodland and gravel.