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P number: P000067
Old photograph number: C02907
Caption: Hillhouse Quarry, Dundonald. Ayrshire. Columnar teschenitic dolerite being quarried for road-metal. Quarry face and crushing plant.
Description: Hillhouse Quarry, Dundonald. Ayrshire. Columnar teschenitic dolerite being quarried for road-metal. Quarry face and crushing plant. The face exhibits one of the best examples of regular columnar jointing in Britain. Note the large stockpile of crushed rock. The dolerite is a basic medium-grained igneous rock forming a sheet-like igneous body called a 'sill'. The sill was intruded into the country rock conformable with the bedding.
Date taken: 01/01/1921
Photographer: Manson, W.
Copyright statement: Crown
Acknowledgment: This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network
X longitude/easting: 234500
Y latitude/northing: 634500
Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid)
Orientation: Landscape
Size: 256.47 KB; 1000 x 711 pixels; 85 x 60 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 188 mm (screen at 96 DPI);
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