| P number: | P519546 |
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| Caption: | Rock specimen of sandstone from Overwood Quarry, Stonehouse, 3 km north-west of Kirkmuirhill, Lanarkshire, Scotland. |
| Description: | Oblique view of a sandstone sample called the 'Overwood Liver Rock' showing the sample block with different styles of masonry dressing on different faces, in order to show the stone in different styles. This specimen is of Carboniferous age. British Geological Survey Petrology Collection sample number MC5792. Such samples would have been sent out from the quarry to stone merchants and builders to promote that particular stone and illustrate its properties when dressed. Overwood was one of the major sandstone quarries that supplied building stone to Victorian Glasgow. From the Coal Measures of the Carboniferous. Overwood was well known as a high quality typical cream coloured Carboniferous freestone. Many buildings in the centre of Glasgow were made from Overwood, including the prestigious former Glasgow Stock Exchange building on Buchanan Street (1875-1877). Size of specimen: 10x10x9 cm. Munsell colour code and colour 10YR8/2, very pale orange. |
| Date taken: | Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 2003 |
| Photographer: | Bain, T.S. |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Additional information: | MC5792 |
| X longitude/easting: | 277000 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 646000 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 204.09 KB; 999 x 774 pixels; 85 x 66 mm (print at 300 DPI); 264 x 205 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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