| P number: | P576337 |
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| Caption: | Marble specimen. Ipplepen, Devon. Parker's Quarries, near Newton Abbot, Devonshire. |
| Description: | Label name: Ipplepen, Devon. Alternative name: Grey Ipplepen. Specimen description: Light grey with dark grey-white-pink veins. Text from: Watson, J. British and foreign marbles and other ornamental stones. Cambridge : University Press, 1916. 17 GREY IPPLEPEN. Parker's Quarries, near Newton Abbot, Devonshire. About one and a half miles from Newton Abbot there are quarries which yield a marble that is known commercially as Grey Ipplepen. As the specimen skews, this variety has a light grey ground-mass, sometimes approaching a fawn. colour, through which run numerous white veins of calcite and occasional slender red markings. A recent example of the use of this marble may be seen in Cambridge, the new pavement in the interior of Sidney Sussex College Chapel (1912) being largely composed of it. |
| Date taken: | Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 2004 |
| Photographer: | McIntyre, B.M. |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Additional information: | The marble is from the Walter Brown Collection, Scottish Mineral and Lapidary Club. |
| Orientation: | Square |
| Size: | 274.96 KB; 1000 x 1000 pixels; 85 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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