Corsehill stone is a type of building stone, extracted from Corsehill Quarry in Annandale, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is a red sandstone of Triassic age, used extensively for buildings in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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.
References
- https://canmore.org.uk/site/81438/corsehill-quarry
- https://www.dunedinstone.co.uk/corsehill-specification/
- https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/explore/monuments-and-memorials/pan-am-flight-103
- https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-103sjres129es/pdf/BILLS-103sjres129es.pdf
 | This sedimentary rock-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |