Quarry

"What I love about quarries is that they’re a kind of accidental place. A place that has been formed during the making of something else - an inverse echo of our built world." Archaeologist Rose Ferraby takes us to Beer on England's Jurassic coast where she considers the quarry as a space where the ingrained relationships between people and stone are revealed. Worked since Roman times, the stone was used to build fine villas, cathedrals and local houses, while the caves were a hideaway for smuggled brandy, entangling human and natural worlds. The empty voids still stand, containers for ongoing stories of stone.

Produced by Mark Smalley
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3