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| Local Name(s): | Potterne Stone. |
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| Stone Group: | Sedimentary | ||||||
| Stone Type: | Sandstone | ||||||
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| Geological Sub-Divisons: | Upper Greensand. |
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| General Colour Description: | Cream coloured when fresh it weathers to a pale grey colour. |
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| Hand Specimen Description: | A calcareous, fine grained sandstone known as 'malmstone' used locally in the Vale of Pewsey, it commonly comprises scattered shells and fossil worm burrows (Green 1998: 15). |
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| Stone Identifiers: | Calcareous, Granular. | ||||||
| Reacts dilute to HCl? | No | ||||||
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