Quarry Collection (#8)

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A winter sunrise at Winspit

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A winter sunrise at Winspit

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A winter afternoon at Winspit on the Dorset coast

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First light at Llangattock Escarpment in the Brecon Beacons

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Sunset at Pulpit Rock on the Isle of Portland in Dorset

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A panoramic view of the stunning and iconic biomes at the Eden Project in Cornwall

Workers carving the marble at the Marble Quarry, Fuenteheridos, Huelva, Spain in the 19th century

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Fovant Badges and Chiselbury Camp Univallate Hillfort, Fovant Down, Wiltshire, 2015

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Post Medieval limestone quarry with associated trackways and spoil heap, near Croglin, Cumbria, 2013

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Disused Croglin limekiln and quarry, near Croglin, Cumbria, 2013

Granite Quarrymen's Huts, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Granite Quarrymen's Huts, 1857. Accommodation for stone-workers in Scotland

Blasting the Granite Rock, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Blasting the Granite Rock, 1857

Coal miner starting to make a hole Victorian period

Ochre quarry of Roussillon, Languedoc-Roussillon, Provence, Southern France, April 2006

Ruston-Bucyrus 110-RB face shovel loading a Euclid dumper, Steetley quarry, Nottinghamshire, 1967

Moai at the quarry on the slope of the Rano Raraku Volcano at sunrise, Rapa Nui National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Easter Island, Chile, South America

Quarry workers, Boma, Belgian Congo, West Africa. Date: circa 1905

A Paramoudra, Magheralin Quarry, Moira - a close in view of the photographers son sitting on a boulder in the Quarry. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Moira). Date: circa early 1900s

Cave Hill from Quarry Path - a view high up in the Cavehill with a house to the left. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast). Date: circa early 1900s

Baalbek, Lebanon - A huge Monolith destined for Acropolis
Baalbek, Lebanon - A huge Monolith (21m long) destined for Acropolis, still within the quarry, showing how these large stones were carved as single pieces in situ. Date: circa 1910

Egypt. Aswan. The unfinished obelisk in a granite quarry. The bottom side is still attached to the bedrock and it presents the marks from workers tools

Book of Trades, The Quarry Man. 1841

Illustration of a quarry

Stonehenge, ancient prehistoric stone monument at Palau island

MEXICO: AZTEC MASONS. Aztec stone masons at work. Drawing from the Codex Florentino, compiled by Bernardo de Sahagun, c1540

Mechanical excavators loading chalk directly onto railway trucks for the short run to the cement works. 24th September 1949

Quarry in countryside, Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, September

View of a rocky surface from above, Port Hedland, Western Australia, Australia

View of landscape from above, Port Hedland, Western Australia, Australia

View of a rocky surface from above, Port Hedland, Western Australia, Australia

Lea Grauvogel-Stamm, palaeontologist C018 / 9410
Lea Grauvogel-Stamm (born 1940), French palaeontologist, using tools to uncover fossils in a sandstone quarry in the Vosges mountain range, France

Cellar in an old stone quarry, modern stainless steel fermentation vats. Chateau Belair (Bel Air) 1st, premier Grand Cru Classe, Saint Emilion, Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France

Foxhounds. Artist: Eileen Hood. Watercolour of foxhound dogs scenting their quarry in a woodland scene Date: circa 1915

Quarrymans Tools 18th C
Various tools including pickaxes and hammers, used by quarriers in 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760

Conveyor belt at cement works
Cement production. View of a conveyor belt carrying partly crushed limestone at a cement works. The limestone is fired in a furnace before being used as a base for making cement

Interior of cell block at Portland Prison, Dorset
Interior of a new wing at Portland, Dorset showing cell doors, iron stairways and corridors. Wire netting was placed between balconies to prevent inmates falling to the ground

Railway tunnel, Oakeley Slate Quarry, North Wales
Entrance to a railway tunnel, built in 1879, which goes right under the main workings of Oakeley Slate Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales

Dorothea Slate Quarry, Nantlle Valley, North Wales
View of the Dorothea Slate Quarry, Nantlle Valley, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales, with the engine house at the centre

Penrhyn tomb, Llandegai Church, North Wales
Detail of the Penrhyn tomb in Llandegai (or Llandygai) Church, near Bangor, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales

Convicts being searched, Portland Prison, Dorset
Portland Prison, Dorset, opened in 1848 as a public works prison for convicts who were employed in quarries in the area. This view shows prison officers searching convicts on their return from work

Quarries, Portland Prison, Dorset
Portland Prison, Dorset, opened in 1848 as a public works prison for convicts who were employed in quarries in the area

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Former Busk lime kiln and limestone quarry and Haresceugh Fell Medieval dispersed settlement comprising a stone-walled enclosure containing a stone-walled enclosure interpreted as a dwelling

Moai at the quarry on the slope of the Rano Raraku Volcano, Rapa Nui National Park, Easter Island, Chile

3D Rubislaw Quarry, Aberdeen, 1961
Hill of Rubislaw, Aberdeen, ABERDEENSHIRE, SCOTLAND. NCAP: MOD: JARIC (Scotland) - 22/09/1961

Portugal, Alentejo. White marble quarry near Estremos. The marble produced here is among the best in the world and much of it is exported to Italy

First Discovery Of The Long Hind Leg Of The Dinosaur Diplodocus, By Henry Fairfield Osborn In 1898, At Bone Cabin Quarry, Near Medecine Bow, Wyoming, America

The Rubislaw Granite Quarry, Aberdeen, Scotland In The Late 19Th Century. From Our Own Country Published 1898

At Tilly Whim, 1929. Tilly Whim Caves - stone quarries near Swanage on the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset

Quarry, Balleroy, northern France, c1914-c1918. Photograph from a series of glass plate stereoview images depicting scenes from World War I (1914-1918)

The Centre of the Cornish Mining District, c1896. Artist: JC Burrow
The Centre of the Cornish Mining District, c1896. From Pictorial England and Wales. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris & Melbourne, c1896]

First aid post in quarry, Saint-Vst, attack of Verdun, northern France, 1916. Photograph from a series of glass plate stereoview images depicting scenes from World War I (1914-1918)

Penrhyn Slate Quarries, c1896. Artist: John Wickens
Penrhyn Slate Quarries, c1896. From Pictorial England and Wales. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris & Melbourne, c1896]

Masons and stonecutters, detail of the miniature in Codex Justinian Institutiones Feodorum et Alia, illuminated manuscript, c. 1300

Reproduction of the Jaws of Banyoles, jaw of a pre-neanderthal found in 1887 by Pere Alsius in a quarry of the Pla de la Formiga (Porqueras)

Urn without decoration, from the necropolis of La Pedrera in Vallfogona de Balaguer, Termens (Lleida)

Stones of crystals called Gems of Mount Vesuvius, 1776
Stones of crystals called Gems of Mount Vesuvius, Plate LIIII, from Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies, by Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803)

Vitrifications, and other Volcanic productions, 1776
Vitrifications, and other Volcanic productions, Plate LII, from Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies, by Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803)

Productions of the Solfaterra, 1776
Productions of the Solfaterra, Plate LIII, from Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies, by Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803), published 1776 (hand coloured engraving)

Specimens of curious stones found by the Author on Mount Vesuvius, 1776
Specimens of curious stones found by the Author on Mount Vesuvius, Plate XXXXVIII, from Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies, by Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803)

Lava, Scoria, and Pumice stones and of Mount Versuvius, 1776
Lava, Scoria, and Pumice stones and of Mount Versuvius, Plate LI, from Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies, by Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803)

Specimen of the lavas of Vesuvius polished, 1776
Specimen of the lavas of Vesuvius polished, Plate XXXXIX, from Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies, by Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803)

Piece of marble composed of fragments of various sorts of marble found in the Fossa Grande, Plate XXXXVII: from Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies

Specimens of volcanic matter found in the crater of Vesuvius, 1776
Specimens of volcanic matter found in the crater of Vesuvius, Plate XXXXVI, from Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies, by Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803)

Specimens of Tufa found in and around Herculaneum, 1776
Specimens of Tufa found in and around Herculaneum, Plate XXXXV, from Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies, by Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803)

Specimens of volcanic matter taken from the inside of the crater of Vesuvius, 1776
Specimens of volcanic matter taken from the inside of the crater of Vesuvius, Plate XXXXIV, from Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies

Specimens of a curious volcanic matter taken from a hollow road leading from Pisciarelli to the Solfaterra, Plate XXXXIII, from Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies

Specimens of Tufas from the quarrys near the Grotta of Pausilipo, 1776
Specimens of Tufas from the quarrys near the Grotta of Pausilipo, Plate XXXXII, from Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies, by Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803)

Representation of a thick Stratum of Lava, that ran into the sea from Mount Vesuvius in the Eruption of 1631, Plate VIII, from Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies

Dressing slate at Trebarwith Slate Quarry, Cornwall, 1959. Artist: Michael Walters
Dressing slate at Trebarwith Slate Quarry, Cornwall, 1959. The photograph shows a quarry worker cleaving the slate to reduce the slate to the desired width

Quarrying slate by hand at Trebarwith Slate Quarry, Cornwall, 1959. Two quarry workers use traditional methods to split the slate into sections

Steetley limestone quarry, Kadeby, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, 1955

Stone quarry, The National Stone Centre, Derbyshire, 2005

A Chalk Pit on the Downs, near Eastbourne, 1871, (1935). Artist: Henry George Hine
A Chalk Pit on the Downs, near Eastbourne, 1871, (1935). From A Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings in the Collection of Frederick John Nettleford, Volume II. - D to H, by C. Reginald Grundy

Waterfall & Stone Quarry, Near Boscastle, 1832. Artist: William Alexander Le Petit
Waterfall & Stone Quarry, Near Boscastle, 1832. After Thomas Allom (1804-1872)

The Latomie, Syracuse, Sicily, Italy, 1927. Artist: Eugen Poppel
The Latomie, Syracuse, Sicily, Italy, 1927. The Latomie are stone quarries that were also used as prisons in ancient times. From Italien in Bildern, by Eugen Poppel [August Scherl, Berlin, 1927]

The Stone Quarries, Craigleith, near Edinburgh: From Which the New Town was Built, 1829

Quarry, Naperville, Illinois, USA. Artist: The Universal Photo Art Company
Quarry, Naperville, Illinois, USA. Stereoscopic card detail

Ninety-two foot obelisk still lying in the quarry of Assuan (Aswan), Egypt, 1905

Quarry chambers of Masara, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Quarry chambers of Masara, Egypt, 1905. The great pyramid of Giza was built using blocks of stone taken from this quarry. Stereoscopic card. Detail

The Catacombs, Paris, 1931. Artist: Ernest Flammarion
The Catacombs, Paris, 1931. The Catacombs are old quarries which were converted into an Ossuary in 1786. Illustration from the book Paris by Ernest Flammarion, (1931)

A Revolt of French Anarchists in Guyana, 1894. Artist: Oswaldo Tofani
A Revolt of French Anarchists in Guyana, 1894. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 16th December 1894

Opencast mine, Korea, 1900

Mineralogy, slate works on the Meuse river, France, 1751-1777. A print from the Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers by Diderot & d Alembert, 1751-1777

Desert and Quarries, Asouan, with the Island of Elephantine, Egypt, 19th century

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