See Topographical Writers in South-West England, edited by Mark Brayshay - University of Exeter Press, 1996, pages 81-89
On Portland: "A great Companie of Prisoners, digging, delving, haling, breaking and framing stones".
Two details from an illustration of Portland in David Burnett, Dorset Before the Camera, 1539-1855
"DAVID BURNETT founded the Dovecote Press in 1974 to publish the first of a series of books of old photographs recording life in Dorset".
I wonder if the prisoners hollered out any hammer or work songs in the Portland stone quarries, equivalent to those that Alan Lomax recorded in US State Penitentiaries in Mississippi and Louisiana
Early in the morning
Jumpin' Judy
Black Woman
Old Alabama
More from Alan Lomax's field recordings
Take This Hammer (Leadbelly)
County Farm Blues, Son House
Gaol Song, from A Dorset Book of Folk Songs, 1948
Daniel Defoe’s Dorset: Weymouth to Abbotsbury, Harry Bucknall, Dorset Life
Defoe in West Dorset, Dorset Life
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