There are tufa quarries in Worcestershire, along the Teme Valley at Shelsey Walsh. The church there is largely built from tufa, which suggests that they were active in medieval times. I suspect that they will be common in areas where the geology is right.
David Poyner
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Subject: Re: Tuffa mines
On 21 Sep 2011, at 08:53, Chris Salter wrote:
> Does your archaeologist mean tufa a type of limestone, or tuff a type of volcanic rock (used for mortars)?
Tufa (the spelling mistake was all my own work!)
Dave
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