quarries and stone

A quarry near Paris:









A quarry under the Val de Grâce:











Limestone quarries in the Ile-de-France:

- Bagneux, 92

Old farm building stone, Sector hagues et bourrages


- Bazemont, 78

Old farm building stone, Sector des hagues et bourrages


- Chatillon, 92

3 quarries as a former farm building stone, one of which became in the 60's Mushroom.

- Chaville, 92

- Clamart, 92

- Etampes, 91

Old mushroom in the Faubourg Saint-Pierre.


- Herblay, 92

The quarry of the English is a former farm building stone, it has a vaulted entry.


- Ivry sur Seine

Old farm building stone, which contains the remains of the brewery Dumesnil.


- Malakoff, 92

Old farm building stone, which became a mushroom farm in the 60s.


- Méry sur Oise, 95

The quarry of Rû is the quarry of a former farm building stone


- Montrouge, 92

Old farm building stone under the cemetery


- Nanterre, 92

Old farm building stone which is a civil defense shelter of the SNCF (National Society of French Railways)


- Saint-Ouen l'Aumône, 95

Operating medieval building stone that has become the Mushroom of Clos du Roi.

There is an old cave carved by a carrier.


- Sartrouville, 78:

Old farm building stone, Sector Hague and jams




A quarry in Herblay:








- The quarries of gypsum, chalk and sand of the Ile-de-France are available on the website of the Association

CFPPHTR « Commission Française pour la protection du patrimoine Historique et Rural » " French commission for the protection of historical heritage and rural":

http://cfpphr.free.fr/index.htm


- The underground aqueduct of Ile-de-France are available on the website of the Association

ASEPS « Association pour la Sauvegarde et l'Etude du Patrimoine Souterrain », « Association for the preservation and study of underground heritage»

http://cfpphr.free.fr/aseps.htm


- A study of the stone industry to build Carrières sur Seine Picar conducted by the institute PICAR « Institute for the Protection and Rehabilitation of Industrial Heritage Quarries"


Extraction techniques, tools, etc ... For example:

http://documentation.lutecia.fr/spip.php?article8


- History of quarries and catacombs of Paris

http://www.catacombes.info/histoire/index.php?subCAT=1


- Books about quarries;

http://carrierespatrimoine.wordpress.com/category/bibliographie/page/4/


- Quarries in the Lutetian limestone

http://www.mnhn.fr/mnhn/geo/collectionlutetien/carrieres.html


- The origin of the stone monuments and other cultural

http://www.lrmh.fr/lrmh/w_publications/article_geologie/_intro_art_geo.htm






Castles in Links:
http://chandt.blogspot.com/2011/09/castles-in-links.html