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5s Blocks in the yard, marked 4.1.129 The camera walks between two blocks standing in the yard at the quarry, each sawn square and marked in spray paint. The marking on the near block reads 4.1.129, and the sawn face carries the straight parallel lines of the bed down its length. 9s A block marked 4.1.155, and the yard around it A single block in the yard with the quarry marking C 4.1.155 sprayed on its corner, the camera pulling back to show the yard and the low hills beyond it. The block is sawn on all four sides and still carries the rough face the quarry cut it from. 9s A block marked 4.1.95, and the yard The camera moves along a row of blocks in the yard and comes to rest on the marking sprayed on the end of one of them, 4.1.95, before turning to the yard itself and the working face beyond. 7s The working face The cut face of the quarry, stepped down in benches where the stone is taken out, with the drill lines and the cuttings at the foot of it. This is the rock the blocks are cut from, before any of it is sawn into blocks. 5s Sawn slabs set out in the yard Rows of sawn slabs standing on edge in the yard, each one marked in red with a number of its own, the hillside behind them. These have been cut out of the bed and are waiting to be lifted and worked. 10s The quarry and the working floor The open working floor of the quarry with the benches cut into the hillside, the standing water of a recent rain across the floor and the blocks stacked at the far end of it. 6s The sawn face of a block in the yard Close on the sawn face of a block in the yard, the straight lines of the bed running down it and the darker streaks of iron staining carried down the face by rainwater, with the yard and the hills behind.