Talk:Dunster Castle

Red Sandstone disambiguation
A "disambiguation needed" tag has been placed on the mentions of Red Sandstone. I would speculate that this should be Triassic New Red Sandstone from the location of the castle & distributions of the rock. This source (p138) says "The Triassic red sandstone of the Quantock Hills..... has been widely used in the area ...The larger manor houses and mansions which lie around the edge of the area, like Nettlecombe Court, Combe Sydenham and Dunster Castle. However this document (p8) talks about the geology being Old Red Sandstone. Any help or alternative sources would be helpful.&mdash; Rod talk 17:23, 11 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I'd be tempted to change it from "red sandstone" to "red sandstone". Nev1 (talk) 17:26, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I've had this problem on another article - I'm with Rod that it is probably New Red Sandstone, but in the absence of a hard ref, I'd be inclined to play it safe as per Nev's suggestion. Hchc2009 (talk) 17:34, 11 October 2011 (UTC)


 * (e/c with Hchc2009) Apologies for the tagging; I fixed a few things but couldn't work out the best one here. Old red sandstone at least appears to be in the right geographical area as compared to new red sandstone, according to that most reliable of sources Wikipedia (see those articles and also Geology of Somerset(!)). Natural England calls it "old red sandstone" in that article you link, Rodw, and also here, but I don't know why it also describes it as "Triassic", which would point to New (unless I'm missing something). This map (from Southampton University Earth Sciences dept) has "old red sandstone" in the vicinity rather than "new". This map has "new" quite close to Dunster. As I'm no geologist and my knowledge of Somerset is limited to cricket, Nev's suggestion looks good... BencherliteTalk 17:53, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks to all for contributions. I think Nev's suggestion may be the best option particularly as in the 15th century (as the article says) "imported Bristol red sandstone" was used. Therefore local geology may be no indicator, and the stone used for building may be different from the mound it is built on mentioned in Note 1.&mdash; Rod talk 18:05, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

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