Setts forming a channel, Gordon Road, Clifton, Bristol
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Setts forming a channel, Gordon Road, Clifton, Bristol
Image: © Robin Stott Taken: 25 Jun 2017
These setts could be of the Clifton Down Limestone. A display in Bristol Museum and Art Gallery gives an account of Carboniferous Limestone as one of Bristol's building stones: "The limestones that form the Downs of Clifton and the Mendips are mainly tough and massive. Due to the difficulty of squaring blocks, it tends to be used only as rough irregular rubble walling, often covered by ashlar or render. Many of the setts of Bristol's streets are of the various Carboniferous limestones." Elsewhere, in discussing a wall of mixed stones, Clifton Down Limestone is referred to as "white-weathering". The kerb could be of the Pennant Sandstone, seen in many places as flagstones, often grooved presumably to save feet from slipping on Bristol's steep hills.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.455999
Longitude
-2.612058