Quarries & Quarrying

Peter Stanier was born and educated in Cornwall, where he developed an interest in the history of metal mining and stone quarrying, evidence of which is hard to escape in the county. Since graduating at Southampton and Bath universities he has become an authority on the granite industry of south-west England. He is a writer and lecturer in archaeology and industrial archaeology and lives at Shaftesbury in Dorset.Stanier, Peter is the author of 'Quarries & Quarrying ', published 1985 under ISBN 9780852637289 and ISBN 0852637284.