| P number: | P527802 |
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| Caption: | Limestone from Espeston, Midlothian. |
| Description: | A very fine-grained, uniform dark grey limestone from Espeston, Midlothian. BGS Sample SL 43. British Geological Survey Petrology Collection sample number MC 7578. The quarries originally opened up here were in the Carboniferous Bilston Burn Limestone, but later, not much stone had been taken from them, and a new quarry has been started in the North Greens Limestone about a mile away from the kilns, on the right bank of the North Middleton Burn, half a mile south of Esperston Farm. The beds in the basal 10 feet are clean and massive, but towards the top the courses are thinner, with some shale partings and occasional nodules of chert up to 6 inches in diameter. The limestone from both quarries was originally all burnt, grinding limestone is now also in operation and a plant for grinding was added later. |
| Date taken: | Sun Jun 25 00:00:00 GMT 1905 |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
| Copyright statement: | Unknown |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 145.85 KB; 1000 x 665 pixels; 85 x 56 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 176 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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