| P number: | P200027 |
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| Old photograph number: | A00029 |
| Caption: | Carn Brea, Redruth. Looking S. |
| Description: | Carn Brea, Redruth. Looking S. This photograph of a granite tor on Carn Brea is of interest as showing a block of granite with its surface peculiarly hollowed out. By some, their hollows have been claimed as the sacrificial altars of the Druids, but De La Beche in his report referring to similar cases, which he terms 'rock basins' remarks: 'Though we may regard these basins as natural productions due to atmospheric influences and therefore not the work of the Druids, it does not follow that the latter may not have made use of a few which may have been properly situated for their purposes, even giving a more artificial form to some, should they have required similar basins at all'. (Report on the geology of Cornwall etc. p.452). |
| Date taken: | Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT 1904 |
| Photographer: | Hall, T.C. |
| Copyright statement: | Crown |
| X longitude/easting: | 168500 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 40500 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 269.06 KB; 1001 x 722 pixels; 85 x 61 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 191 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Unsorted Images, Geoscience subjects/ Landforms, weathering/ Rock weathering |
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