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Bargate stone
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<p>Bargate stone is a highly durable form of <a href="/facts/Sandstone/RP8B6fqL">sandstone</a>. It owes its yellow, butter or honey colouring to a high <a href="/facts/Iron/QK1JYy8E">iron</a> content. In some contexts it may be considered to be a form of <a href="/facts/Ironstone/22uTumwH">ironstone</a>. However, in the context of stone buildings local to the extraction of Bargate Stone, the term 'ironstone' is often used to refer to a darker stone, also extracted from the Greensand, which rusts to a brown colour. </p>