| P number: | P526526 |
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| Caption: | Specimen of Kerridge sandstone, Kerridge, Macclesfield, Cheshire. |
| Description: | Sample of Kerridge sandstone from the building stone collection of the Edinburgh World Heritage Trust. The stone has a cut surface with a pale greyish-orange colour. This specimen is of Carboniferous age. Edinburgh World Heritage Trust sample no. EWHT 79. Kerridge stone comes from two quarries near Macclesfield in Derbyshire, England. These are the Bridge Quarry and the Sycamore Quarry. Up until the 1950s these were worked as one quarry; Victoria Quarry. The stone is from the Coal Measures of Carboniferous Age. Kerridge stone is generally fine grained and fawn or grey in colour. It has been used for walling and mainly locally as a building stone. |
| Date taken: | Sun Jun 25 00:00:00 GMT 1905 |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
| Copyright statement: | Unknown |
| Orientation: | Portrait |
| Size: | 310.22 KB; 775 x 1000 pixels; 66 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 205 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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