P number: | P205360 |
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Old photograph number: | A05426 |
Caption: | Between Birling Gap and Beachy Head. Looking S. |
Description: | Between Birling Gap and Beachy Head. Looking S. Shallow workings for flint in Dry Valley Gravel. Many valley in the Chalk downs have deposits of flint gravel up to 4 ft. or 5 ft. thick in their bottoms. These flints are excavated and the soil and turf replaced. |
Date taken: | Fri May 01 00:00:00 BST 1931 |
Photographer: | Rhodes, J. |
Copyright statement: | Crown |
X longitude/easting: | 557500 |
Y latitude/northing: | 95500 |
Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
Orientation: | Landscape |
Size: | 226.28 KB; 1000 x 732 pixels; 85 x 62 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 194 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
Categories: | Unsorted Images, Geoscience subjects/ Rocks, sedimentary/ Flint |
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