The complex pattern of spirals is believed to have been cut more than four thousand years ago. The stone is 1.34 metres ... by a digger driver at Pierowall Quarry in Westray in Orkney.

Wake Stone has four quarries in the region, plus a fifth near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It employs about 225 people, and none will lose their jobs or see their pay cut as a result of the sale ...

One of the last opencast Portland stone quarries is switching to mining, after more than a century of production. Operator Portland Stone Firms said the move would prolong the life of Coombefield ...