his paper reports on new research into the previously poorly-documented post-medieval sarsen stone industry of southern England. Two significant centres of the trade areexplored using complimentary methodologies. In Buckinghamshire, where a major quarry hasbeen lost to redevelopment, archaeological features are mapped from historical aerial photo-graphs and other remotely-sensed data. In Wiltshire, analytical earthworks survey at two quar-ries records different stone-working practices. The interpretation goes beyond a conventionalindustrial archaeological focus on commodity production, to examine the complexity of the rela-tionships between people, materials and technology in three different taskscapes
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