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]

References

  1. ^ "Corsehill Quarry | Place | trove.scot".
  2. ^ "Corsehill Sandstone - Dunedin Stone".
  3. ^ "Pan Am Flight 103 Memorial".
  4. ^ https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-103sjres129es/pdf/BILLS-103sjres129es.pdf
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