Sentence examples for used for quarrying from inspiring English sources

The working traces allowed us to define the working tools used for quarrying, the organisation of the works and of the quarry exploitation, as in the area many remains of the quarry organisation network are extant or recognisable, such as: service posts, sledge-ways, docks.

Located on a site originally occupied by a foreman's office when the land was used for quarrying, the new sawmill building was completed in 1899, providing electricity via two enclosed steam engines and pneumatic power across the estate.

The Egyptians developed techniques for cutting soft rocks with copper saws and hollow reed drills, both surrounded by an abrasive, a technique probably used first for quarrying stone blocks and later in excavating temple rooms inside rock cliffs.

White, semitransparent Parian marble (Paria Marmara), used for sculpture and quarried from subterranean pits on the north side of Mount Marpessa, was the chief source of wealth for ancient Páros.

In an odd twist, Italian news outlets also reported that Simone Caffaz, the president of the Fine Arts Academy of Carrara, where the marble used for "David" was quarried, believed that Carrara had the right to make its own claims on Michelangelo's work.

Formerly used for sand and gravel quarrying, the 92 hectare (228 acre) site is owned by French industrial company LaFarge Industries and is leased to the Trust.

He has donated more than £5m to the Labour party and has imported marble from the quarry used for the Taj Mahal to decorate his £60m home.

It's interesting that the thick chunks of stone forming a 30-foot-long "White Quartz Ellipse" at Doris Friedman Plaza come from the Roxbury, Conn., quarry used for the Brooklyn Bridge and Grand Central Terminal.

With such touches as stone from the same quarry used for their original house and reclaimed wormy chestnut to match the old paneling, the project cost $200,000.

The site is a former quarry, used for its sandstone deposits as early as the late nineteenth century.

The canal passes the remains of a loading dock, once used for Bath Stone from the quarries on Bathampton Down, which was carried down a straight track to the canal over the Dry Arch rock bridge (demolished in 1958 to allow double-decker buses to use the A36).