Journal Entry 6: Slate Tile Roofs

            Here in England many of the house roof's are made out of slate tiles, those from the medieval times were either thatched roofs or slate tile roofs. Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, metamorphic rock, that derives from shale sedimentary rock. It is comes through low-graded metamorphism, from composed sedimentary rock  of clay or volcanic ash. It also is the finest-grained foliated metamorphic rock.

Chelsworth, Village I live in. Photo-credit is not mine.

             As you can see in the picture of the pink house, it has slate tiled roofs, many of them now darker through age and weathering.