They find a small stone with 'Michael' carved into it.
"We don't want the craft of stone carving to go away."
She chose something black: glass or stone carved into a little block of shadow.
With a face carved out of the very stone of the great mountains.
The most telling feature and testimony to the history of the chapel is the stone carving above the door.
Lying beyond was the stone carving that belonged upon the second pillar.
"But for other people it can be quite difficult, because the stone carving in Ahutthaya is very skillful."
It includes massive stones carved about 11,000 years ago by people who had not yet developed metal tools or even pottery.
A stone carved from red tufa is situated at the right of the entrance upon a low rock wall.
Interest is also renewing for using stone carving in modern wats.