Sandstone

I've lived on the New Red Sandstone of Dumfriesshire for nearly 40 years. That's the same as a Dumfriesshire midge claiming to have lived on me for exactly four and a half minutes…

From the gravestones of Dumfriesshire to the brownstones of New York, from the tunnels under Nottingham to the stone-built sideboards of Scara Brae: the story of sandstone is the story of the world we live on and, indirectly, of us.

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