23rd May 2012, 11:33 PM
Good points, but they don't explain why you find so many broken chunks at sites where they're not being made - effectively at the end consumption point of the production chain, rather than the start or middle. Many broken chunks turn up at sites which apparently have nothing to do with production, like enclosures.
Short of a high velocity pratfall involving the equivalent of a sledgehammer accidentally dropping onto one half of a two-stone set after it had been taken apart, I'm coming up blank. I'm not even sure how you'd go about breaking one deliberately. The greensand ones I've come across don't strike me as being particularly brittle or fragile, but then I've never dropped one! (Yet...)
Short of a high velocity pratfall involving the equivalent of a sledgehammer accidentally dropping onto one half of a two-stone set after it had been taken apart, I'm coming up blank. I'm not even sure how you'd go about breaking one deliberately. The greensand ones I've come across don't strike me as being particularly brittle or fragile, but then I've never dropped one! (Yet...)