Making column drums. The quarries of Cusa. The people of Selinous obtained building stone from the immediate vicinity or from quarries 12 km away. In all the quarries the stone is calcarenite, but of varying quality. The best stone came from the Cusa quarry, which still today offers visitors the unique opportunity to see an ancient quarry and the working techniques used to extract the various blocks. Extraction was preceded by cleaning the surface of the stone and then marking out the piece to be extracted. This was followed by ever deeper incisions around the drums, which were detached with metal points, loaded onto "sledges" and dragged to the building site.
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