Robbed Sarum stones uncovered in Salisbury

[Imperial Dave]

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Quelle surprise...

[Jim Webster]

If people leave dressed stone lying about that nobody is using, what does anybody expect is going to happen. 

[Imperial Dave]

Yes indeed...you only have to walk through Caerwent (Venta Silurum) to see this in stark evidence

[Old Sarum]

The original Cathedral was sited inside Old Sarum hill fort.

The quarry caves at Chilmark where the stone for Salisbury Cathedral was dug had a much later military purpose. I was brought up only a couple of miles away when it was used by the RAF as a bomb store. The rail main line to Exeter was next to the site with a spur to unloading bays where the bombs were loaded onto a narrow gauge railway to be taken into the caves. RAF Chilmark has now morphed into a counter-terrorism training centre, but part of the quarry has reopened and is producing stone again.