Roman cement

Roman cement is reported to have contained high levels of Magnesia.

Most of the statues on the west front were removed and the stonework covered with Roman cement.

These were boulders the size of a man's head, sold to manufacturers of Roman cement.

Set in hard Roman cement and buried under collapsed debris, thousands have been found throughout northern Europe.

He set up a plant making Roman cement at Harwich in 1807, supplying it for government work.

He began experimenting with formulations for "artificial" cements that would provide a cheaper alternative to Roman cement.

The transformation was largely external - the old house was literally wrapped in Roman cement, a very hard render made from ground flint.

The names Natural cement or Roman cement then defines a cement coming from a single source rock.

The success of Roman cement led other manufacturers to develop rival products by burning artificial mixtures of clay and chalk.

Both these only deal with Natural cement - referred to as Roman cement without reference to the early artificial cements.

The house was rendered by Soane using 'Parker's Roman Cement' of biscuit-brown colour.

Repairs to Trinity College in Cambridge, using Roman Cement to cover the east side of the great court (1810).

The tower supported a spire, built in brick which was rendered with Parkers Roman Cement.

Most famous was Parker's "Roman cement".

It has facade of Roman cement with raised quoins and cornice, all topped by balustrading and a slate roof.

The exterior of the house is rendered in Roman cement, with terracotta additions such as balusters, capitals, keystones and finials.

Sibton displays Parker's Roman cement, which was patented in 1796 and which Nash used on most of his buildings.

It was built of brick rendered in Roman cement to imitate stone, the finer architectural detail built up with the cement.

Portland cement and Roman cement manufactured at Conyers Quay near Sittingbourne were also handled here.

In October 1825, he leased land at Swanscombe, Kent, and set up a plant to manufacture both Roman cement and the new product.

His father was a charge-hand at Francis & White's "Roman Cement" plant in Nine Elms.

The house is in the castellated Gothic Revival style, with an external finish of Roman Cement with limestone dressings.

MAS-NMR Spectroscopy investigations were carried out on these high-tech Roman cements dating to the 2nd.

This cement was an artificial cement similar in properties to the material known as "Roman cement", which had been patented in 1796 by James Parker.

Early hydraulic materials such as hydraulic limes, natural cements and Parker's Roman cement were all based on "natural" raw materials, burned "as-dug".