Welsh Slate

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Welsh Slate is written by David Gwyn and published by RCAHMW. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 187118455X (ISBN 10) and 9781871184556 (ISBN 13).

Slates from quarries in Wales once went to roof the world. By the late nineteenth century as many as a third of all the roofing slates produced worldwide came from Wales, competing with quarries in France and the United States. This book traces the industry from its origins in the Roman period, its slow medieval development and then its massive expansion in the nineteenth century – as well as through its long drawn-out decline in the twentieth.