User blog comment:D2r/Unanswered Questions of Redwall/@comment-2154133-20100812044712

For question 13 regarding Loamhedge--

In Mossflower when Germaine sketches out her Abbey plans, Columbine suggests that they could have built it at Loamhedge. Germaine says no, because there is no local rock in the Loamhedge area. Loamhedge must have been a large communal building of sorts (it's an abbey, after all) and it may have been built of wood. Also, in Loamhedge (the book) it mentions that the building was rotting/decaying. Stone should have stayed intact for a while, rather than crumbling.

Another possibility is that perhaps Loamhedge wasn't a large communal building but a collection of smaller houses or buildings, like a neighborhood. But Jacques mentions places like a dormitory which lead us to believe that the building was for communal use, so that option is most likely out of the question.

HOWEVER in Mattimeo, Malkariss has the slaves hauling rock and building him an underground stone palace. Where does he get the rock? If there /is/ local rock that we're not aware of, then it's most likely that Loamhedge Abbey was originally made of rock.