| P number: | P576310 |
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| Caption: | Marble specimen. Red Hopton Wood. Hopton Quarries, Middleton, Derbyshire. |
| Description: | Label name: Red Hopton Wood. Alternative name: New Hopton Wood. Specimen description: Brown but made mostly of white and grey fossils (crinoids). Text from: Watson, J. British and foreign marbles and other ornamental stones. Cambridge : University Press, 1916. 4 NEW HOPTON WOOD. Hopton Wood Quarries, Middleton, Derbyshire. This large slab of alternating brown and fawn-coloured stone represents a bed of compact rock belonging to the Carboniferous Limestone series of the Peak of Derbyshire. This stone has only recently been quarried for industrial purposes, and, when polished, is used as a decorative material. The bed lies immediately above the stratum which yields the Hopton Wood Stone, the respective quarries being about 300 yards apart. The New Hopton Wood Stone is said to possess the same enduring qualities as the original Hopton Wood, and as it takes a good polish, it should make a useful marble. Besides numerous crinoidal fragments there are specimens of Productus and other shells in this rock. These white fossils add considerably to the attractive appearance of the stone when polished. |
| 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: | 184.60 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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