| P number: | P519600 |
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| Caption: | Specimen of roofing slate from Aberfoyle Slate Quarries, Perthshire, Scotland |
| Description: | Slab of 'slate rock' collected by the Geological Suvey of Scotland before the First World War as part of an early survey into Scotland's economic mineral resources. The specimen is of Precambrian, Dalradian age. British Geological Survey Petrology Collection sample number EMC 5775. The Aberfoyle slate quarries were the third largest in Scotland at their peak in the second half of the 19th century. However they have a long and distinguished history, with the first recorded extraction as early as 1574 when the slate was taken by river to Stirling for use in Stirling Castle. In 1820 the quarries were still small, employing only three men. This had increased to thirty men by 1837, and the rapid expansion began in 1858 when it became a company. Unlike the largest slate quarries in Scotland, Ballachulish and Easdale, the Aberfoyle quarries were landlocked. Despite this, transportation was improved with the construction of a tramway which connected the quarries to a branch railway line at Aberfoyle in 1885. |
| Date taken: | Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 2003 |
| Photographer: | Bain, T.S. |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Orientation: | Portrait |
| Size: | 183.03 KB; 837 x 1000 pixels; 71 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 221 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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