roofing slate

"Though why is it served on a roofing slate?"

A roofing slate beside the man had some illegible writing on it.

Roofing slates are used in many countries, though ceramic tiles have gradually taken over.

At one end the loft was blocked off by roofing slates and old nesting materials.

There was a thriving export trade in the famous roofing slates of Delabole at one time.

Roofing slate came from across the river, in Lafayette, New Jersey.

In addition to initial cost savings, sawn roofing slate has other advantages over its traditional riven counterpart.

Any roofing slate and interior stone in place is catalogued and moved in the same fashion.

It resists fine splitting, so most of the mines' product was large cut slabs rather than split roofing slates.

Old roofing slates (not modern synthetics) are also extremely useful, and easily-available free from demolition sites.

Roofing slate is actually still in use today, primarily for the restoration of eighteenth and nineteenth century buildings, as it is fairly expensive.

The green roofing slates and plumbago (graphite) of the Lake District are obtained from this group of rocks.

The Romano British site has been the site of surface finds of tesserae, roofing slates and pottery.

The splitting of the blocks to produce roofing slates proved resistant to mechanization, and continued to be done with a mallet and chisel.

The Broad Vein slate is hard and durable, but does not split into thin sections, so is generally unsuitable for use as roofing slates.

She landed with a grunt and a thud, rolled helplessly across slick, wet roofing slates, and grabbed for the metal drain at the edge.

The company introduced the bate sawing of Westmorland green roofing slate 18 months ago to improve the utilisation of non-riven green rock.

The hip roof, shallower than its predecessors, was adopted, and roofing slates of thin, handcut limestone slabs replaced shingles.

With crow steps, the roofing slates (rarely tiles) do not reach the end of the building, so making for a special problem with keeping the roof watertight.

Over the next two days naval bombardment only dislodged some roofing slates, but the castle's guns caused casualties among the galley rowers and the land army.

Because roofing slates are relatively friable, they are packed vertically into the open slate waggons to reduce the chance they will be broken on their journey.

Other mineral deposits with actual or potential commercial value include gold, silver, gypsum, talc, calcite, dolomite, roofing slate, limestone aggregate, building stone, sand and gravel.

The broad vein is of considerably poorer quality than the narrow vein, and the slate it produces is of little use in roofing slates or polished surfaces.

The outbuildings were even more crudely constructed, windowless and with sections of roof tiles layered and pieced together along with odd-shaped wedges of roofing slate.

The rapidly expanding cities of England needed high quality roofing slate, which was transported to the new port by tramway from the quarries in Ffestiniog and Llanfrothen.