Its use as a fortress and then a quarry demonstrates how little spiritual importance was attached to it, at a time when sites associated with martyrs were highly venerated.

The three companies have been identified under the legislation as inheriting the liabilities of companies who were associated with depositing wastes at the quarry.

The museum is sited in a former chalk quarry where the chalk was converted into lime for use in mortar and cement, and remaining on site are several kilns, including a De Witt set, and associated buildings including offices, bagging shed and locomotive shed.

By the early years of the 20th century about 1, 000 men worked in the quarry and its associated workshops.

The name of the community is associated to the grindstone quarry located on the island.

Exchange sidings were once located at the museum serving three separate private quarry railway systems associated with the past extraction of iron ore.

Toby is also associated with the coach Victoria who forms the " vintage train " with Henrietta that takes workers to and from the quarry.

The disused limestone quarry called Quarry Hole, where Newton Lane meets Walworth Road, is post-medieval also, and it once had an associated lime kiln.

The practice is commonly associated with the moors of Scotland where the principal quarry is red deer.

He returned in 1910 with his sons, daughter, and wife, establishing a quarry on the flanks of Fossil Ridge.

However, in August 1939, due to the imminence of war and the likelihood of air-raids the Parthenon Sculptures along with Museum's most valued collections were dispersed to secure basements, country houses, Aldwych tube station, the National Library of Wales and a quarry.

Dryden, the English poet, used the word " clip " to describe the swift flight of a falcon in the 17th century when he said " And, with her eagerness the quarry missed, Straight flies at check, and clips it down the wind.

The extensive quarries at Foggintor provided granite for the construction of London's Nelson's Column in the early 1840s, and New Scotland Yard was faced with granite from the quarry at Merrivale.

A one-metre gauge line was laid down following the route of the former Jersey Railway from Saint Helier to La Corbière, with a branch line connecting the stone quarry at Ronez in Saint John.

Horses carried limestone, along the Holy Island Waggonway, from a quarry on the north side of the island to the lime kilns, where it was burned with coal transported from Dundee, Scotland.

At later times, during the prolonged illness and after the death of his mother in 1481 when he was just six years old, Michelangelo lived with a stonecutter and his wife and family in the town of Settignano, where his father owned a marble quarry and a small farm.

To this end, the band was pressured into producing a video for the song, and they made one cheaply with the band members filmed running down a quarry, shown in slow motion.

Comparisons with the Klemm collection of Egyptian rock samples showed a close resemblance to rock from a small granodiorite quarry at Gebel Tingar on the west bank of the Nile, west of Elephantine in the region of Aswan ; the pink vein is typical of granodiorite from this region.

This model, known as the " raptor prey restraint " ( RPR ) model of predation, proposes that dromaeosaurs killed their prey in a manner very similar to extant accipitrid birds of prey: by leaping onto their quarry, pinning it under their body weight, and gripping it tightly with the large, sickle-shaped claws.

However, the species ' striking appearance made it ( along with the closely related scimitar-horned oryx and addax ) a popular quarry for sport hunters, especially foreign executives of oil companies working in the region.

When expertly " cut " by striking with a specialized tool in the quarry, many slates will form smooth flat sheets of stone which have long been used for roofing and floor tiles and other purposes.

The French then began to dress the walls with stone from a quarry about one mile ( 1. 6 km ) away, although this work was never fully completed.

Common carp are extremely popular with anglers in many parts of Europe, and their popularity as quarry is slowly increasing among anglers in the United States ( though destroyed as pests in many areas ), and southern Canada.

It can be contrasted with the gun dog, which assists hunters by identifying the location of prey and / or recovers shot quarry.

Located west of the Butte, near the beginning of Rue Caulaincourt in Place de Clichy, the cemetery in the Montmartre quarter of Paris is built below street level in the hollow of an old quarry with its entrance on Avenue Rachel under Rue Caulaincourt.

The baying of the hounds was identified with the crying of wild geese as they migrate and the quarry of the hounds as wandering spirits, being chased to Annwn.

East portal with the quarry entrance clearly visible on the right

In 1939 on the outbreak of World War II, most of the collection was sent to a quarry in Wiltshire, to Montacute House in Somerset, or to a tunnel near Aldwych tube station, with larger items remaining in situ, sand-bagged and bricked in.

The first project was the restoration of the west front, with the original quarry that was used for stone at Caerbwdi Bay being reopened.

They spend much of their time together swimming in an old abandoned water-filled quarry, but also often clash with the more affluent Indiana University students in their hometown, who habitually refer to them as " cutters ", a derogatory term for locals stemming from the local Indiana Limestone industry and the stonecutters who worked the quarries.

Housed in the former city library, the museum contains an exhibit of the geological history of Sylacauga marble along with works by the Italian sculptor and quarry investor Giuseppe Moretti, his assistant Geneva Mercer, and contemporary artists Frank Fleming and Craigger Browne.

Close to the village and gorge are Batts Combe quarry and Callow Rock quarry, two of the active Quarries of the Mendip Hills where limestone is still extracted.

Most accepted construction hypotheses are based on the idea that it was built by moving huge stones from a quarry and dragging and lifting them into place.

Salukis are " sight " hounds, which means they hunt by sight, run the quarry down, catch it, and kill or retrieve it.

The caribou in North America is not domesticated or herded as is the case of reindeer ( the same species ), reindeer are often found in colder regions in Europe, but is important as a quarry animal to the Inuit.

Among the leading quarries was the Carbaugh Run Rhyolite Quarry Site in Adams County, where as many as fifty small quarry pits are known.

Presently, there is only one quarry on St. Kitts and there are quarries on Nevis.

Other industries are lumber and mining which includes lead, zinc and marble, especially in the Panagia area where one of the mountains near the Thracian Sea has a large marble quarry.

A UK government report showed that 67 chemicals, including Agent Orange derivatives, dioxins and PCBs exclusively made by Monsanto, are leaking from the Brofiscin quarry, near Groesfaen in Wales, an unlined porous quarry that was not authorized to take chemical wastes.

Vehicle access to the quarry site is restricted however a car-park and picnic facilities including toilets are within walking distance of the main site which is completely accessible on foot.

There are several panels containing historical information about the site spread around as part of the popular Railway Reserves Heritage Trail which runs close to the quarry.

Sandstone buildings in Buccleuch StreetThere are many buildings in Dumfries made from sandstone of the local Locharbriggs quarry.

There are extensive trails on both sides of the river that through the woods, leading to a small beach on the river ’ s west side and an unused quarry on the east.

There are a number of different animal and geometric effigy mounds and the remains of an early twentieth century limestone quarry and kiln within the park.

Salas used hand tools to first quarry, then work the native Mexican stone into precisely scaled, detailed replicas of art works and artifacts that are representative of the Aztec, Huastec, Maya, Mixtec, Olmec, Teotihuacan, Toltec, Totonac and Zapotec civilizations that preceded modern Mexican culture.

A quarry is a type of open-pit mine from which rock or minerals are extracted.

Many quarry stones such as marble, granite, limestone and sandstone are cut into larger slabs and removed from the quarry.

Originally bred to bolt fox from their dens during hunts, they are used on numerous ground-dwelling quarry such as groundhog, badger, and red and grey fox.

The working JRT is required to locate quarry in the earth, and then either bolt it or hold it in place until they are dug to.

Coonhounds are an American style of hunting dog developed for the quarry and working conditions found in the United States.