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Object type: Fragment of coping or shaft
Measurements:
Stone type: Pinkish grey (5YR), very fresh and hard biotite granite with sparse K-feldspar megacrysts up to 1.5 mm across. This rock is very similar to that quarried in the Haytor 'blue' granite quarries in the nineteenth century, and extensively used for building and facing stone, also by monumental masons. Interestingly, this type of fresh biotite granite is not that much in evidence in older buildings on and around the moor, probably because it was relatively intractable to the techniques used by the early masons. Consequently the Chulmleigh fragment may be a late fake. Dartmoor Granite. [1]
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Corpus volume reference: Vol 7 p. 93
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Fragment of coping or shaft with plant-scroll on one face, standing at street corner adjacent to the Red Lion inn.
The geological opinion is supported by the mechanical cutting of the plant-scroll, and a nineteenth century date is reasonable.
