P number: | P000146 |
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Old photograph number: | C03778 |
Caption: | Bogside No. 2 Site, Westfield Coalfield, north-east of Ballingry. Opencast coal production. Fifeshire. |
Description: | Bogside No. 2 Site, Westfield Coalfield, north-east of Ballingry. Opencast coal production. Fifeshire. View showing boulder clay cover in course of excavation with a dump of excavated material in the background (see C03776, right). Rockhead in foreground. Two workmen are standing next to a shovel excavator, a dumper truck is on the horizon. The rockhead is the boundary between the superficial deposits and the underlying solid rock. The excavator bears the markings 24RB (Ruston-Bucyrus, the makers). |
Date taken: | Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 BST 1944 |
Photographer: | Fisher, W.D. |
Copyright statement: | Crown |
Acknowledgment: | This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network |
Orientation: | Landscape |
Size: | 201.45 KB; 1000 x 725 pixels; 85 x 61 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 192 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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