On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 21:24:06 +0100
Dave Linton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I appreciate this is probably outside the list's allowed topics and
> ask your indulgence ...
>
> A friend of mine wants to get hold of (small) quantities of ochre for
> making reproduction iron-age pigments for ceramics. Any suggestions
> as to where she might be able to obtain them? (She lives in Somerset
> so any information on Mendip sources would be particularly
> appreciated.)
>
> Feel free to reply to me directly if you think the information would
> not be of interest to list members generally.
>
> Thanks
>
> Dave
> --
> Dave Linton
For a resident in Somerset, I would have thought that Axbridge Ochre Mine would have been top of the list. I went caving there whilst in the RAF, and spent two years trying to wash the red stain out of my PT vest.
Rod Goslin
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