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Isle of Purbeck
Map from Lycos @ 1:500,000
Map from Lycos
@ 1:500,000

Quarried for centuries from the limestone of the 'Isle' of Purbeck, the 'marble' is not marble at all but limestone which contains many shells embedded in it - when polished the edges of the shells in the darker limestone matrix give an attractive appearance to the stone.

The Romans valued Purbeck Marble for construction and quarried it - and a jetty found at Ower in Poole Harbour may have been used for loading the stone into Roman ships.

PURBECK STONE
'Isle' of Purbeck
DORSET
PORTLAND STONE

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NEWTOWN, Brand's Bay, Poole Harbour
Newton was a "new town" which King Edward I attempted to establish on the shores of Brand's Bay in Dorset's Poole Harbour as a port to handle the trade in Purbeck Stone in 1286. Although the site was pegged out to include space for a market and a church and some houses were built, by the time of Queen Elizabeth I it had become reduced to a single cottage.

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