| P number: | P576176 |
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| Caption: | Marble specimen. Purbeck. Marble Quarries, near Swanage, Dorsetshire. |
| Description: | Label name: Purbeck. Specimen description: Mostly made of shell fragments embedded in grey/green matrix. Text from: Watson, J. British and foreign marbles and other ornamental stones. Cambridge : University Press, 1916. 37 PURBECK. Marble Quarries, near Swanage, Dorsetshire. This specimen represents the greenish grey variety of Purbeck. It is usually found in the same quarry that yields the grey Purbeck just described, and is frequently employed in the same decorative work as the grey variety. |
| Date taken: | Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 2004 |
| Photographer: | McIntyre, B.M. |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Additional information: | The marble is from the Walter Brown Collection, Scottish Mineral and Lapidary Club. |
| Orientation: | Square |
| Size: | 320.60 KB; 1000 x 1000 pixels; 85 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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