P number: | P213712 |
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Old photograph number: | A15108 |
Caption: | Gregory's Quarry, Wilsford Heath. |
Description: | Gregory's Quarry, Wilsford Heath. Limestone working, Gregory's Quarry. A slightly narrower angle of view of the foregoing subject, with a figure providing scale. This shows how the crane-operated chain and hook are used to manipulate the freed block to allow the rigging of a lifting loop as seen above. After removal of the block of rock to the adjacent working bench surface the basal thin-bedding slab was manually split away to leave a monumental block formed from a single 'post' - probably a single cross-bedded unit. |
Date taken: | 01/09/1991 |
Photographer: | Evans, H.J. |
Copyright statement: | NERC |
X longitude/easting: | 498950 |
Y latitude/northing: | 341090 |
Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
Orientation: | Portrait |
Size: | 223.37 KB; 668 x 1000 pixels; 57 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 177 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
Categories: | Best of BGS Images/ Industrial geology, Geoscience subjects/ Economic geology/ Quarries, Geoscience subjects/ Rocks, sedimentary/ Limestone |
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