| P number: | P576189 |
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| Caption: | Marble specimen. Encrinite, Derbyshire. Monyash Quarries, Bakewell, Derbyshire. |
| Description: | Label name: Encrinite, Derbyshire. Alternative name: Derby Fossil. Specimen description: Grey containing large encrinite fossil fragments. Text from: Watson, J. British and foreign marbles and other ornamental stones. Cambridge : University Press, 1916. 8 DERBY FOSSIL. Monyash Quarries, Bakewell, Derbyshire. This rock, which is sometimes known as Monyash Marble, is medium-grey in colour, and built up largely of, various parts of encrinite stems which are interspersed in the mass at all angles, some being fully an inch in length. This gives the marble a curious, if not handsome, appearance. The longitudinal and transverse sections of these fossils produce an almost incredible diversity of figure in each example. Some varieties of this marble possess a bluish shade of colour with slender light purple markings, but the prevailing colour is grey. An example of it may be seen in the Imperial Institute, Kensington, some of the small panels in the main corridor being decorated with it (1891). The pedestal supporting the bronze statue of the 8th Duke of Devonshire, late Chancellor of Cambridge University, which was placed in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, in 1908, is another example. |
| 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: | 197.26 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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