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Moorstone

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Moor´stone`
n.1.A species of English granite, used as a building stone.


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Bare clitter gives way to mossy turf interspersed with stunted thorns and moorstone bearing the angular but weathered marks of early working and cleaving, particularly lower down and close to the old mineral line.
As recently as 1839, huge granite posts were obtained and used as temporary props against a bulging north wall - 55 shillings for "Four moorstone posses".
 
 
 
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