| P number: | P000199 |
|---|---|
| Old photograph number: | D03499 |
| Caption: | Westwood Bing 'The Five Sisters', West Calder viewed from the south-west. West Lothian. Five conical spoil heaps of spent oil-shale known as an oil-shale bing. |
| Description: | Westwood Bing 'The Five Sisters', West Calder viewed from the south-west. West Lothian. Five conical spoil heaps of spent oil-shale known as an oil-shale bing. The freshly mined raw oil-shales were heated in retorts to produce shale-oil for distillation and other uses. The waste product of the process was the spent oil-shale fragments seen in the photograph. |
| Date taken: | 01/01/1982 |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Acknowledgment: | This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network |
| X longitude/easting: | 300800 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 663600 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 266.40 KB; 1000 x 777 pixels; 85 x 66 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 206 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Best of BGS Images/ Geological structures |
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