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P number: P000082
Old photograph number: C03536
Caption: Hailes Quarry, Slateford, Edinburgh. Midlothian. Blaes being worked for brick-making, overlying the Hailes Sandstone (Calciferous Sandstone Series).
Description: Hailes Quarry, Slateford, Edinburgh. Midlothian. Blaes being worked for brick-making, overlying the Hailes Sandstone (Calciferous Sandstone Series). The photograph is taken looking south towards Kingsknowe Farm and shows the strata dipping into the face which has a thick overburden of glacial sand and gravel. Note the continuous wire cable tramway with a truck on an incline. Blaes is a Scottish term for a mudstone or shale that weathers to a crumbling mass and eventually a soft clay. The Calciferous Sandstone Series are of Lower Carboniferous age.
Date taken: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1935
Photographer: Fisher, W.D.
Copyright statement: Crown
Acknowledgment: This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network
X longitude/easting: 322500
Y latitude/northing: 671500
Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid)
Orientation: Landscape
Size: 247.48 KB; 1000 x 716 pixels; 85 x 61 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 189 mm (screen at 96 DPI);
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