Gravestone Weathering and Stone Decay
Identifying Stone Decay - free guidance notes
Field guidance notes (get download) prepared by the CSA's Carved Stones Adviser Project to help volunteer surveyors to identify of different types of stone decay associated with gravestones.
Gravestone Weathering, Dr Rob Inkpen, Department of Geography, University of Portsmouth
The Gravestone weathering website contains a description of gravestone weathering, methods to measure weathering, a bibliography of weathering papers and gravestone weathering data.
Gravestone geology and weathering, Department of Earth Sciences, University College London
This website contains information on gravestone weathering and geology using a case study of St Pancras Gardens
Will my gravestone last? Earth Science Education Unit
Will my gravestone last? An earth science investigation of a churchyard, session notes for teachers and pupils.
The Preservation of Dark Age Sculpture: a discussion on the processes of decay by Ingval Maxwell, Director of Technical Conservation, Historic Scotland
The Preservation of Dark Age Sculpture is an approachable introduction to the processes of stone erosion and decay. This paper was first published in Proceedings from the Stones Symbols and Stories Conferences of the Pictish Arts Society.
Page last updated August 2006