Quarrying Frontier Flagstone
The Frontier Flagstone is quarried in the rolling plains of central Montana, near the town of Harlowton. All stone quarries differ depending on the type of stone and the nature of the deposit, and the Frontier has some unique characteristics. We customers visit the...
Quoins
Quoins are large rectangular stones used as cornerstones in traditional stone buildings. They provide structural support for buildings, particularly where rubble or fieldstone is used for the rest of the stonework. They also became an important aesthetic element in...
Porphyry – Imperial Stone of the Roman Empire
Porphyry is an igneous rock similar in composition to granite. Unlike common granites, pophyry has large, light-colored crystals of quartz or feldspar floating in a red or purple fine-grained matrix of smaller crystals. The word “porphyry” comes from...
Lord Elgin and the Parthenon Marbles
In 1799 a Scottish nobleman named Robert Bruce, the 7th Earl of Elgin, was appointed as the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople. While serving as ambassador, Lord Elgin managed to obtain some of the most important marble scultpures from the...