This is a typical moulding which has been carved out of butter, so it is neither, but it gives you an interesting idea of a way to spend a dull breakfast. Butter takes a better chamfer than most spreads.
Perhaps this picture will help?
Here is the distinguished archaeologist, and a large collection of - well, are they worked stones or architectural fragments? You decide.
Over the generations, people have built and demolished, and used the old stones in a variety of ingenious ways: a quoin from an Irish tower house used in a pigsty. Another towerhouse stone used to prop open a field gate on an Irish farm. Roman building materials stud the towers of churches, and church stone work is re-used in farms on outhouses. A tiny moulded lancet window is inserted in a dairy wall. The bishop's wife rather fancies some of those "pretty stones" for her rockery in the Close. The foundations are re-used, and a new building arises on the basis of the old. Leadenhall Market for example, built on the basis of a medieval garner, or communal grain store.
A lot of stones are just bunged into a hole and used in foundations, or as infill or hardcore. Until the buildings they are supporting are demolished in turn and they are found, seen to be beautiful, interesting, to have a value in what they can tell us about a past building. They can be studied in a variety of ways, which will be the subject of another post.
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