BGS Geoheritage – images from the collections

BGS Image ID: P202970 Coe's Chalk-pit, Bramford, Suffolk, 1 1/4 m. N. of railway-station. Looking E. General view of pit. The succes...

Agglomerate. From neck; rhyolitic matrix. Mortonhall Quarry, near Buckstone. The first  of c 17,000 photographs of rock specimens from th...

BGS Image ID: P023985 Easton, Bath and Portland Stone Firms, Ltd., Portland. General view of mason's workshop in Portland Stone work...

BGS Image ID: P200171 Lantern China-clay Works, near Rescorla, St. Austell. Looking SW. View of lower part of clay-pit. This photograph,...

BGS Image ID: P241716 The 'Loaded Camel' St. Mary's. BGS Image ID: P241720 The 'Nag's Head' St. Agnes. ...

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...