Wallace and Area Museum
Wallace, Nova Scotia

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Wallace Sandstone: "Building Stones for a Nation"
Location: Wallace, Nova Scotia, Canada

 
1870 A.F. Church map of Wallace area showing village quarry sites
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Layers sandstone deposit
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Stone from blast exposing where a bowl had formed.
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Two small sandstone bowls
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A small herd of bowls
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Petrified tree trunk from the plant Coridites.
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Growth rings visible in the petrified tree trunk found in the quarry.
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Point Chisels
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Demonstration of stone cutting using a point chisel to level the surface.
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A punch, a special point chisel used for cutting holes and grooves in stone.
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Placing of stone wedges called ''gads'' in order to split stone.
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Stone Drill and Reamer
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Tooth Chisel
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Variety of Broad Chisels made by a blacksmith
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Tooth Chisel
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Stone Drill
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Stone cutting tools demonstration.
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Broad Chisel (Edger)
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