Sutton Stone Quarries
Overview
The Sutton Stone Quarries stands on the Heath, in the Marcher territory of Upwold. Custodianship of the Sutton Stone Quarries grants an Imperial title; a seat on the Imperial Bourse; and a seasonal bounty of valuable white granite.
The Resource
These hardworked quarries are in Upwold near the border with Mournwold and within sight of the Old Pig in the Mournwold. They have long produced an unusually hard and well wearing creamy-coloured limestone that has become so famed as superb quality building stone that the name of the Quarry itself has become eponymous for all other caches of Sutton Stone that have been found. The limestone is seamed with white granite; while the quarries still produce limestone it is this latter material that the quarries focus on.
The Sutton Stone Quarries are scattered along the southern borders of Upwold. Since the Mournwold fell to the Jotun in 349YE, there have been several attempts by the barbarians to sieze the quarries for themselves. The last, during 372YE, resulted in significant losses to both the Imperial forces and the Jotun armies battling across the Heath. The Imperial forces successfully drove the Jotun back across the border after six months of vicious fighting, leaving several new barbarian burial mounds along the southern borders.
during the Summer Solstice 379YE.