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Understanding Masonry
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UNDERSTANDING MASONRY

FIELDSTONE RUBBLE QUARRIED RUBBLE ROUGHLY SQUARED RUBBLE

ASHLAR CUT STONE

MOSAIC FLAGSTONE GEOMETRIC FLAGSTONE
FIGURE 4-16
Rubble stone, ashlar, and flagstone.

at a fabricating plant, but the hardness also lends itself to producing
highly polished surfaces. As an exterior facing material, granite is used
primarily on high-end commercial projects. In custom homes, pol-
ished granite countertops provide an elegant but durable kitchen work
surface. For outdoor garden and landscape applications, small chunks
of quarried or fieldstone granite rubble are somewhat less expensive.
Limestone is relatively durable, easily worked, and widely avail-
able in many parts of the country. It’s an attractive stone sometimes
characterized by embedded shells and fossilized animals and

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