The bath in my room had a deep cast-iron tub and floors laid with large, pale-gray stone tiles that Kime reclaimed from an embassy in Alexandria a few years ago.

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Inside the main house, a pink stone-floored entry hall has a large iron chandelier with yellow glass shades that hangs from a 13-foot ceiling.

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For instance, while the vast majority of meteorites are stone, almost all sculpturals are made of an iron-nickel alloy, which takes on beautifully complex shapes as it falls to Earth through a process called ablation.

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Cross St Michan's Church immediately off your list: behind iron doors, a narrow stone staircase descends to its crypt where the ghoulish remains of up to 800-year-old bodies have been preserved by the dry air.

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