Skiddaw Slate (as opposed to Honister slate which has a green hue) and is used for building, in the Lake District. The traditional buildings of Keswick and other settlements are almost entirely of Skiddaw slate. The slate is also used for making souvenirs, monuments, ornaments etc. Smaller fragments are used for gravels or for ornamental pathways. Skiddaw Slate Skiddaw slate is an early Ordovician metamorphosed sedimentary rock, as first identified on the slopes of Skiddaw in the English Lake District. The base of this series is unknown. The thickness could, therefore, amount to several thousand feet of sediment. These sediments were formed
Black Slate been working on a new album, "Now And Then", for an official 2015 release on TCD Records. A peaceful Demonstration is what we need. However this totally amazing album created by Black Slate is causing a Riot in the musical streets of the city of London where it all started some FORTY odd years ago; thus making Black Slate the first official Roots Rock Reggae Band out of "Great Britton" That’s right; gallantly forging forward in the name of music, every track on this album expresses a musical form in a unique story of the Good, the Better and the