Corsehill (stone)

Corsehill stone is a type of building stone, extracted from Corsehill Quarry in Annandale, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.^[1] It is a red sandstone of Triassic age, used extensively for buildings in the 19th and 20th centuries.^[2]

Quarry

On November 8th, 1993, the United States Senate passed a resolution calling for the construction of a memorial to honour the victims of the Lockerbie Bombing. Blocks of red sandstone from the Corsehill Quarry were used to build the Lockerbie Bombing cairn in Arlington National Cemetery. ^[3]^[4]

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[1] ttps://canmore.org.uk/site/81438/corsehill-quarry

[2] ttps://www.dunedinstone.co.uk/corsehill-specification/

[3] ttps://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/explore/monuments-and-memorials/pan-am-flight-103

[4] ttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-103sjres129es/pdf/BILLS-103sjres129es.pdf

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