Glossary

A wet mixture of lime and fine sand used as a plaster finishing coat or pointing mortar for ashlar.

The technique of setting knapped flints on the same plane (ie flush) with the face of dressed stone. Used to form decorative compositions in superior work. Two main types:

(i) Flint infilling between stone slabs mortared onto face of wall to create chequer patterns, bands etc.

(ii) Inlays of flint set into carefully shaped recesses in stone slabs, forming, for example, trefoil-headed panels or heraldic shields.