STONES

1. •Stone Federation GB stones list
   

2. •British Museum Natural History (BMNH) rock collections
   

3. •BMNH building and decorative stones collection
   

4. •Earthlab rock types
   

5. •Northern Ireland building stone database
   

6. •Natural Stone Directory
   

7. •Bibliography of building stones
   

8. •Bibliography of roofing stones
   

STONE COLLECTIONS

1. •British Geological Survey (BGS) collection at Keyworth, Nottingham
   

2. A collection of large-size, representative hand samples of building stones from current and historic quarries in the UK, together with specimens from historic buildings supplied by conservation architects and contractors, currently c.680 samples. The coverage extends across the whole of the UK and supplements material in the Keyworth BGS Britrocks collection. The data includes quarry and building locations and lithostratigraphic information.
   

3. • British Museum Natural History
   

4. The BMNH Building and Decorative Stones Collection totals approximately 10,000 specimens and is one of the largest documented collections in the UK. Its strength and importance lie in the wide variety of UK and European rocks, the sources of which are no longer obtainable. The collection of UK stones is being moved to BGS Keyworth on long term loan early in 2010.
   

5. •Sedgwick Museum Cambridge
   

6. •Whitby Museum Yorkshire
   

7. An historically important geology museum displaying Jurassic fossils from the local coastline, and the famous Whitby jet.
   

8. •The Manchester Museum Geology and Mineralogy
   

9. The Manchester Museum mineral and rock collection was begun in the early part of the nineteenth century.
   

10. •Hancock Museum, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
    

11. •University of Southampton Department of Archaeology
    

STONE ORGANISATIONS

1. •English Stone Forum
   

2. •Scottish Stone Liaison Group
   

3. •Welsh Stone Forum
   

4. •Stone Federation GB
   

5. •Stone Roofing Association
   

6. •National Stone Centre
   

7. •International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment: stone commission
   

QUARRIES MINES AND DELVES

1. •BGS Directory of mines and quarries
   

2. •BGS active quarries database
   

3. •BGS stone resources map
   

4. •BGS Mineral commodities profiles
   

5. •Stone slate delves - limestones and sandstones
   

6. •UK building stone industry past and present