Buxton Museum and Art Gallery focuses its collection on history, geology and archaeology primarily from the Peak District and Derbyshire.
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery June 2020
Ashford Black Marble
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Ashford Black Marble is the name given to a dark limestone, quarried from mines near Ashford-in-the-Water, in Derbyshire, England. Once cut, turned and polished, its shiny black surface is highly deco
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…the minerals are Blue John, carved limestone, local specimens, and cave deposits. In 2006, Buxton Museum purchased a rare collection of decorative Ashford Black Marble wares, together with tools used to work the stone collection left by John Michael Tomlinson. Other collections relating to Derbyshire also managed from…
A picture of Ecton Hill made using Ashford Black Marble
A picture of Matlock Bath engraved using Ashford Black Marble by Ann Rayner
An inlaid table in Derby Museum
Fossil found in Black Marble by William Martin of a type that was once thought to be a crocodile tail