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Source Image: PR927_01_07 of Carrara Quarries

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Description

View of a group of quarries at Carrara.

Monument
Carrara Quarries 
Monument Type
Quarry 
Material(s)
Luna Marble (Archaeometric identification)  
Date
post bc 50 
Keywords
Quarrying  

Location

Original Location
Carrara 

Evidence for working practices

No evidence is available for this source.

Notes

The quarries at Carrara, near ancient Luna, are among the largest in the world and an important hub of the international marble trade. Large-scale quarrying in this region started under Julius Caesar and continued through the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. For much of this period Luna marble was the most commonly imported white marble at Rome. Later quarrying has destroyed many of the remains of ancient quarrying at Carrara. Several varieties of white marble are quarried at Carrara as well as a streaked grey variety called Bardiglio. Most of the work visible here is modern. The quarry road is also visible along which material is extracted.

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