BGS Geoheritage – images from the collections

Title page of: Memoir Geological Survey. England and Wales. On the manufacture of gun-flints, the method of excavating for flint, the age...

These flints were found in a gravel pit at Piltdown in Sussex by Charles Dawson (1864-1916), a local solicitor and amateur archaeologist. Th...

BGS Image ID: P539567 Penmaenmawr Mountain Top Quarry. Conveyors down to loading pier. BGS Image ID:  P539617 Ship loading ...

BGS Image ID:  P209976 Drewsteignton village square, Devon. Looking east. Drewsteignton village is sited high on the northern edge of D...

Sheet 10  [Isle of Wight, Lyrnington, part of Portsmouth Harbour.] Geological Survey of England and Wales Old Series. 1:63,360. 1856. T...

‘Term day books’ from HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, 1840-1842, containing both magnetic and meteorological observations. Sir John Fran...

BGS image ID:  P537923 A main lift. Images from the Hugh O'Neill collection of the construction of the Forth Road Bridge. BGS im...

BGS Imager ID: P527666 Part of a haematite vein from Eas an Fholaich, near Loch Eilt, west of Fort William, Invernessshire.  British Ge...

BGS Image ID: P100363 Ferniehill, Gilmerton, Edinburgh. Limestone mine subsidence event, November 9th 2000 to March 2001; 'Tumbledow...

William Smith: Geological section from London to Snowdon showing the varieties of the strata and the correct altitudes of the hills. Publ...