The many faces of Reigate Stone: an assessment of variability in historic masonry based on Medieval London’s principal freestone

Michette, Martin; Viles, Heather; Vlachou, Constantina; Angus, Ian

doi:10.1186/s40494-020-00424-w

Heritage Science

Table 1 List of quarries and buildings that provided samples for this study, with approximate date of construction/quarrying, coding system, and information on shape, size and location of samples

From: The many faces of Reigate Stone: an assessment of variability in historic masonry based on Medieval London’s principal freestone

Building/Quarry	Date	Sample code	Sample size	Sample location info
Rockshaw Lodge Quarry, Chaldon	Medieval to nineteenth century	RS1	Cylinders 45 mm ø 50 mm h	All quarry samples extracted from gallery faces near quarry entrances in 1998 (e.g. Figure 2f). Approx. 14 samples extracted per quarry at different heights. Numbered here from quarry ceiling (i.e. 3 closest to floor). Precise locations known
		RS2
		RS3
Quarry Dean, Merstham	Medieval to nineteenth century	QD1	Cylinders 45 mm ø 50 mm h
		QD2
		QD3
Gatton Quarry	Medieval? to nineteenth century	GA1	Cylinders 45 mm ø 50 mm h
		GA2
		GA3
Godstone Quarry	seventeenth to twentieth century	GO1	Cylinders 45 mm ø 50 mm h
		GO2
		GO3
Quarry Field, Merstham	Nineteenth century	QF1	Cylinders 45 mm ø 50 mm h
		QF2
		QF3
White Tower, Tower of London	1070	TOL	Cube 50 mm	Sample removed in 2000. Location unknown
Wardrobe Tower, ToL	1190	WT1	Cube 50 mm	Detached from south facing buttress during conservation work (04.2017)
		WT2	Fragment
		WT3	Fragment
Balium Wall, ToL	Twelfth century	BAL	Cube 50 mm	Date unknown. Location unknown
Martin Tower, ToL	Mid- thirteenth century	MRT	Cube 50 mm	Detached from internal door reveal (2015)
Merton Priory	Early Twelfth century	MER	Cube 50 mm	Location unknown
St Mary Spital	Early thirteenth century	SMS	Cube 50 mm	Location unknown. Obtained from Museum of London archive in c.2000
St Mary Graces	Mid-fourteenth century	SMG	Cube 50 mm	Location unknown
Throwley Church	Fifteenth century	THR	Cube 50 mm	Location unknown. Marked as fifteenth century material
Hampton Court Palace	Early sixteenth century	HC1	Cube 50 mm	Excavated from garden in 2016. Likely to have come from window jambs and been buried following eighteenth or nineteenth century replacements with other stone types
		HC2	Cube 50 mm
		HC3	Fragment
		HC4	Fragment
		HC5	Fragment
		HC6	Fragment
		HC7	Fragment	Detached from external east facing window jamb (2017)
Whitgift Almshouses	Late sixteenth century	WGA	Cube 50 mm	Location unknown

Quarry dates from Burgess (2008)

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