Summary_Stone

STONE SUMMARY

This text talks about the stone and the use in the construction of monumental architecture. The stone have advantages and disadvantages. Its advantages are durability, is strong and consistent material, it can be used in modest structures in its natural state. Its disadvantages are difficult to quarry, transport and cut, and its weakness is tension limits its use for beams, lintels and floor supports. The stone work has been reduced by their high cost although the stronger stonework for monumental architecture is ashlar masonry. This stonework consists of regularly cut block, usually rectangular