Corsehill (stone)

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Corsehill stone is a type of building stone, extracted from Corsehill Quarry in Annandale, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. [1] It is a red sandstone of Triassic age, used extensively for buildings in the 19th and 20th centuries. [2]

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On November 8th, 1993, the United States Senate passed a resolution calling for the construction of a memorial to honour the victims of the Lockerbie Bombing. Blocks of red sandstone from the Corsehill Quarry were used to build the Lockerbie Bombing cairn in Arlington National Cemetery. [3] [4]

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