| P number: | P519828 |
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| Caption: | Specimen of sandstone from Deepdale, Lartington, Barnard Castle, County Durham, England |
| Description: | The sample is a cut block of a poorly-sorted, gritty sandstone. The specimen is of Carboniferous age. British Geological Survey Petrology Collection sample number MC 4754. Catcastle stone is known as an attractive medium-grained stone with a creamy-buff colour with darker specks. At Catcastle older quarries near the site of the current quarry were owned and run by the railway company. Many of the rail bridges north of York are built of Catcastle stone. The Catcastle quarry was closed at the start of the First World War in 1914, but was reopened many years later in 1977. The stone was much used for various harbour walls along the north-east coast of England (and later for repairs such the Scarborough sea walls in 1983). It was used to restore the Auld Brig O'Doon at Alloway near Ayr in 1979, and for the New Sheriff's Court in Glagow (1986), and for reconstruction of the prestigious Stirling Castle Great Hall from 1983 until its reopening in 2000. |
| Date taken: | 01/01/2003 |
| Photographer: | Bain, T.S. |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 200.34 KB; 1000 x 775 pixels; 85 x 66 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 205 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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