BGS Geoheritage – images from the collections

BGS Image ID: P527640 This specimen is probably from the Campbeltown Sandstone, of Carboniferous Limestone Coal Group age. It was worke...

 BGS Image ID:  P640912 Written on the back of the photograph is ' Sir Roderick Murchison (restoration)'. It would be interes...

BGS Image ID: P680269 Above Runton Gap, Norfolk, 3rd October 1907.  Two names noted Gottsche and Tietze. Photograph from the Frederic W...

Travel in East Africa in the 1920s. By air, boat and motor car! (a De Haviland Dragon   ID courtesy of Richard Holowka @RichHolowka )...

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...