Transportation

1852 illustration of a heavy duty four wheel wagon used to transport marble blocks from the quarry. It is pulled by a team of six oxen.A similar type of wagon was also used in New England quarries.The article describes the wagons, “...strong uncouth-looking bullock-cars, composed of three parallel beams of oak, of which the centre one is rather lower than the others ...”

Source: “The Marble Quarries of Carrara [Italy]”, The Illustrated London News Supplement,Vol. XXI October 2, 1852, pp 289. Click here for full text of article.

Four wheeled wagon transporting vermont marble block from the quarry to the mills. Six oxen pull the wagon in the front while two oxen are hitched in the rear on down slopes to act as brakes.

Source: “In The Marble Hills” Century Magazine vol. 40 is. 5 (Sept. 1890) pp 746-747.
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Stone Boats

Stone boats were flat bottomed sleds or could be sleds with two heavy wooden runners. They were pulled by oxen. The four pictures above show remnants of 19th or early 20th century stone boat. (South Hampton, NH)

A steel cable looped around a granite bar. The bar was most likely dragged across the ground.