| P number: | P203142 |
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| Old photograph number: | A03194 |
| Caption: | Shotover Hill Brickyard, Headington. Looking N. |
| Description: | Shotover Hill Brickyard, Headington. Looking N. Concretionary masses, known as 'Giant's Marbles' in the sands of the Pectinatus Zone of the Kimmeridge Clay. The nodules are highly fossiliferous and from one of them the type of Pectinatites pectinatus (Phill.) was obtained by Phillips. The sands were at one time regarded as equivalent to the Lower Portland of Dorset. |
| Date taken: | Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 BST 1925 |
| Photographer: | Rhodes, J. |
| Copyright statement: | Crown |
| X longitude/easting: | 455500 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 207500 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 252.77 KB; 1000 x 740 pixels; 85 x 63 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 196 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Unsorted Images, Geoscience subjects/ Stratigraphical, Geoscience subjects/ Sedimentary features/ Concretions and nodules, Geoscience subjects/ Economic geology/ Bricks, clay and marl quarries |
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