Eye spy an Earthcache
Earthcache is the perfect activity to enjoy the great outdoors, see some interesting geology, and test your knowledge. Why not have a go this summer… Go to www.earthcache.org Written by Dave Stadley, a Building Stones Volunteer. A couple of years ago, we reported on the publication of our first Earthcache, a variety of Geocache. […]
Our New Building Stones Researcher
The Building Stones team is pleased to be joined by professional researcher Jenni Waugh. Jenni will be working on the Building Stones project for one afternoon a fortnight helping to fill in some of the gaps in our database and follow up leads on specific buildings or quarries from volunteers unable to make it to […]
Herefordshire & Worcestershire Building Stone Database Goes Live
The A Thousand Years of Building with Stone project team is very pleased to announce that, as of this month, the new website and database for the project is live on the web. It has been a long hard road to get here, but with almost seven months of development and rigorous testing of the […]
Project Update – Winter 2014
We had a busy summer with shows and stands including Hereford County Fair, Beckford Open Gardens and Bromyard Big Picnic. We chatted to lots of lovely people including may stone house owners who are letting us do descriptions and even have samples of their wonderful homes. Thank you to all of the volunteers who helped […]
Conference Report – Symposium on the Old Red Sandstone, Brecon, October 2014
At the start of October Elliot and Kate presented at the inaugural Symposium on the Old Red Sandstone in Brecon. The Old Red Sandstone is the name given to the rocks formed between about 420 and 360 million years ago when Britain was at the margins of an arid desert. Its predominantly red rocks – […]
Finally! A Database
I can scarcely believe that it has been a year since I last went overboard drawing fake snow on a volunteer newsletter . Looking back at what I said then I am startled by how close it is to what I planned to say this time around. That is, we are well on the road […]
Project Update – Summer 2014
We are now at the end of a wonderful summer, which I hope that you have been able to get out and enjoy. The building stones team have been out and about in the sunshine, promoting the project at different events including the Herefordshire Show, Beckford Open Gardens and Tiddesley Wood Open Day. All of […]
Earth Caches vs. Floods
Our very first Earth Cache on building stones around Bewdley went up online for the first time earlier this month and we are (justifiably) excited. For the uninitiated among you, an Earth Cache is a high tech hybrid of a treasure hunt and a game of I-spy in which basically, you must go to a […]
Volunteer Get-togethers – March 2014
To celebrate the work of our wonderful volunteers we are holding Volunteer Get Togethers in March 2014. Why not join us for coffee and cake, and meet some of the volunteers from other clusters, share your discoveries and get ideas for further research. Thank you for all of your work so far and we look […]
The Latest from Santa’s Data Grotto
We are currently reaching the exciting-but-nerve-wracking latter stages of planning the database which will house the wealth of information you are all so busy collecting. We have identified the fields we think we should be collecting. However, these are very much a working model and we would like to know more about how they work […]