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Most stone masons seem to have experience of cutting stone
in a quarry as well as patiently, lovingly fashioning it into a whole
building, or a fireplace or a gravestone to stand in a country churchyard.
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Robert Wetherill, monumental and general
stone mason at work on a piece of freestone, a type of sandstone,
in his yard at Danby, Eskdale in the Cleveland hills. |
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The principle tools of the stone mason's
trade. |
Dry stone walling is one of the toughest and most basic
of country crafts. Handed down from father to son the skill and hard
work have preserved a dominant feature of the Yorkshire Dales Landscape.
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Geoff Lund at work on the foundation
for a limestone wall on Wasser Hill above Conistone in Wharfdale. |
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Geoff Lund, a waller since school, places
a topstone to finish a section of wall. |