ABSTRACT This paper concerns aspects of the granite industry in South West England, appropriately the region for the 2019 AIA Conference. It turns aside from spectacular industrial archaeology to address a concern for some of the little things that are so readily forgotten. The subject is parochial but shows how over two centuries a relatively little industry and its little quarries in Cornwall and Devon left a lasting physical legacy in many overlooked ways, throughout the British Isles and beyond. It opens an awareness of the ‘little things’ by discussing the special qualities of granite for civil engineering, monuments that are hidden in plain sight, transient events for erecting huge blocks, problems interpreting machine bases, landscape features and the much-needed designation of heritage granite quarries.

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2019 年 Rolt 纪念讲座：没有机器的风景：记住小事

摘要 本文涉及英格兰西南部花岗岩行业的各个方面，适当地是 2019 年 AIA 会议的地区。它从壮观的工业考古学转向解决对一些很容易被遗忘的小事情的关注。这个主题是狭隘的，但展示了两个世纪以来，一个相对较小的工业及其在康沃尔和德文郡的小采石场如何以许多被忽视的方式在不列颠群岛及其他地区留下了持久的物质遗产。它通过讨论用于土木工程的花岗岩的特殊品质、隐藏在视线中的纪念碑、竖立巨大块的瞬态事件、解释机器底座的问题、景观特征和急需的指定名称，开启了对“小事”的认识。遗产花岗岩采石场。