This ware is characterized by a dull, reddish-pink body, usually dark-gray at the core, and by a gross waterworn gravel temper. |
The origin of everything is the riverside, from where Brigitte Pazot gazed at the running water, at the waterworn stones, polished by the current, keeping in their veins the memory of mysterious signs and lines. |
After scratching our way over a metre downwards through the shingle, we finally hit the waterworn rocks of the early Carboniferous. |
Waterworn and hence rounded, up to about the size of a fist, the pebble, preferably flattish rather than spherical, was given a few violent but skillfully applied blows by a hammerstone. |
Seaside and river gravel, which is composed usually of rounded, waterworn pebbles, is unfit for surfacing roads. |
Swallow-holes or waterworn caverns are common in many parts of the limestone region. |