Cross-section of rubble wall, Gordon Road, Clifton, Bristol

Image: © Robin Stott Taken: 25 Jun 2017

This is provisionally identified as Brandon Hill Stone. The face of the wall is seen in Image Brandon Hill is the steep hill on which the Cabot Tower stands, west of the city centre. The display in Bristol Museum and Art Gallery describes Brandon Hill Stone as "very hard well-cemented sandstones, usually reddish in colour … It is resistant to weathering and to wear. Uses: rough walling, because of difficulty in working it. Not considered a 'polite' stone and most often would have been rendered over. It can sometimes be seen in use as setts in roads. Sources: large quarries existed where the Berkeley Place and Trenchard Street multistorey car parks have been built." Also in view: fellow-Geographer Alan Murray-Rust leads Anne Burgess, Barry Hunter and myself on a well-researched walkabout in Clifton on the Sunday morning of the 2017 Meet and AGM weekend. Houses faced with, say, Bath Stone were seen whose side walls were of an eye-popping rough red stuff: either Brandon Hill Stone or Dolomitic Conglomerate. See Image

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