| P number: | P000148 |
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| Old photograph number: | C03782 |
| Caption: | Woodbank Site, north of East Wemyss. Fifeshire. Opencast coal production. A shovel excavator loads a lorry with coal. Several other draglines and a bulldozer can be seen working diferent levels. |
| Description: | Woodbank Site, north of East Wemyss. Fifeshire. Opencast coal production. A shovel excavator loads a lorry with coal. Several other draglines and a bulldozer can be seen working diferent levels. View from south-west end of 3rd cut, looking north-north-east showing excavation of Dysart Main Coal in middle foreground with overburden of rock. The boulder clay which has been partially stripped from rock forms bank on right. The Dysart Main Coal is a coal from the Upper Carboniferous Coal Measures. |
| 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: | 234.18 KB; 1000 x 718 pixels; 85 x 61 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 190 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Unsorted Images, Geoscience subjects/ Economic geology/ Opencast coal |
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