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Stansted Airport Stone (Takeley)

Elm Grove Summer House - August 2024

Saffron Walden Waterworks Well 2

Saffron Walden Waterworks Well 1

Debden Road Chalk Pit - junction of chalk and boulder clay

Part of the pit occupied by the shooting range

Crave Hall Farm Chalk Pit 2

Crave Hall Farm Chalk Pit 1

The Coopers End Farm Puddingstone

The Ashdon meteorite (booklet)

Frederick Pratt in June 1923 on the site of the fall

Mike Howgate and Gerald Lucy on the centenary 9th March 2023

The Ashdon meteorite

Tufa quoins at St. Germanus Church

Inscription on the Friars Farm Boundary Stone -2

White Notley puddingstone in 2022 - 2

White Notley puddingstone in 2022 - 1

Ceramics gallery septarian panels 4

Ceramics gallery septarian panels 3

Ceramics gallery septarian panels 2

Ceramics gallery septarian panels 1

Great Bardfield Church pagan stone (sandstone)

Great Bardfield Church pagan stone (sarsen)

Former home of S.H. Warren (plaque)

Former home of S.H. Warren

Harlow puddingstone today 2

Sarsen stone at corner of building at Harps Farm

Three sarsen stones near the Pinnock Stone

Adjacent sarsen stones showing root holes

Reverse of Pinnock Stone showing patches of sarsen stone

Aveley clay pit being prepared for landfill operations in 1992

Extract from Farnham Past and Present 1910

Farnham Wood Puddingstone

The Pinnock Stone and adjacent sarsen stones

The Pinnock Stone

Possible piece of German (Eifel) lava quern in Langley Church

Sarsen stone and Puddingstone at South Weald Church 2

Sarsen stone and Puddingstone at South Weald Church 1

Close up of the Puddingstone at South Weald Church

Cottages in Warley faced with Warley Gravel 2

Cottages in Warley faced with Warley Gravel 1

Steeple Bumpstead Church septarian nodule 4

Steeple Bumpstead Church septarian nodule 3

Steeple Bumpstead Church septarian nodule 2

Steeple Bumpstead Church septarian nodule 1

Locations of the main sites in Ilford (From Juby 2011)

The Fireball Meteor of 1890. Essex Naturalist. Vol. 4.

1898 OS Map showing the Writtle Wick Gravel Pit

Ridgwell erratic boulder 2

Ridgwell erratic boulder 1

1898 OS Map showing Writtle Wick Gravel Pit

1898 OS map showing Dovercourt Spa

Megalodon tooth in the Red Crag junction bed at Elsenham Quarry

Daws Heath Gravel in West Wood

Cockaynes Wood EWT 4

Cockaynes Wood EWT 3

Osea Island and Northey Island

Osea Island and Northey Island from the air

The course of the Thames during the Purfleet interglacial stage.

Gravelhill Wood - North Pit

Gravelhill Wood - South Pit

Route of the Thames during deposition of the Orsett Heath Gravel

Kennington Park gravel exposures (north end of Kennington Park)

Aveley elephants 2

Aveley elephants 1

Geological map showing pebble gravel on the very highest ground.

The Priors Green Sarsen Stone shortly after it was discovered.

Extract from OS map of 1939 showing the Vange Mineral Well

Low gravel cliff at Kennington Park.

Debden Puddingstone (detail)

Debden Puddingstone

Preparing the Bagshot Sand section to be open to the public

Essex Countryside Magazine - 1959 photo of Friars Farm stone

Essex Countryside Magazine - 1959 letter re Friars Farm stone

Inscription on the Friars Farm Boundary Stone -1

Orsett Depot Quarry (West Pit) in 1973 showing shrimp burrow.

Woolwich Pebble Beds in Orsett Depot Quarry (West Pit) in 1973.

Hazel End Sarsen stone (smaller) with root hole

Hazel End Sarsen Stone (detail)

Bedfords Park 3

Bedfords Park 2

Bedfords Park1

Bedfords park boulder panel

Cockaynes Wood EWT 2

Cockaynes Wood EWT 1

Part of a Hertfordshire puddingstone quern stone

Bunter quartzite and Hertfordshire puddingstone.

Coopers End Farm sarsen stone 2

Coopers End Farm sarsen stone 1

Wicken Water sarsen pothole

The Harlow Puddingstone today

Bedford's Park boulder 3

Bedford's Park boulder 2

Bedford Park boulder

Cockaynes Wood Nature Reserve 1

Gravel bank in Scrubs Wood

The Tendring district in Wivenhoe Gravel times.

Little Oakley excavation (May 1987)

Hertfordshire puddingstone at Channels Golf Club

Sandon Pit in 1971

Sunnymead Farm Gravel Cliff during restoration in 2012

Sarsen stone on the rim of Grays Chalk Pit in 2005

Geologists Association field trip to Grays Chalk Pit in 1910

Sarsen stones around the rim of Grays Chalk Pit in 1910

Grays Chalk Pit during a Geologists Association visit in 1910

The igneous glacial erratic outside Blackmore Post Office

Part of Grays Chalk Pit in 1920

Grays Chalk Pit in 1910 during a Geologists Association visit

Shark teeth from the Chalk of Grays

The Ashdon sarsen stone

High Ongar Clay Pit in 1978 showing excavated till.

High Ongar Clay Works in 1978 - clay store

High Ongar Clay Works in 1978 - rotary kiln

High Ongar Clay Pit in 1978

The puddingstone by the Yew Tree Inn at Manuden.

The Stansted Airport Sarsen Stone at Takeley.

The Takeley sarsen unveiling ceremony on 19th July 2003.

Solution pipes in chalk at Newport Chalk Quarry in 1980 - 2

Solution pipes in chalk at Newport Chalk Quarry in 1980 - 1

Solution pipes in chalk at Newport Chalk Quarry in 1980 - 4

Solution pipes in chalk at Newport Chalk Quarry in 1980 - 3

Solution pipes in chalk at Newport Chalk Quarry in 1980 - 5

Pinchpools Chalk Pit in 1980

Close up of glacial gravel in Wades Hall Gravel Pit in 1980

Flint fossil shells used to make a model bird on the Shell House

Shire Hill boulder clay pit in 1911

Shire Hill boulder clay pit in 1911 showing numerous erratics

Cam-Stort buried valley at Newport (from Lake and Wilson 1990)

Examining the chalk cliff at Limefields Pit Nature Reserve

Calcite crystals in a septarian nodule at Elsenham Quarry

Cross bedding in the Chillesford Sands at Elsenham Quarry

Examine the Red Crag nodule bed at Elsenham Quarry

Exotic erratic cobble from Kesgrave Gravel at Bulls Lodge Quarry

A boulder of Hertfordshire puddingstone in Bulls Lodge Quarry

Kesgrave Sands and Gravels at Bulls Lodge Quarry

Anglian till above Kesgrave Gravel at Bulls Lodge Quarry

Hertfordshire Puddingstone by works at Bulls Lodge Gravel quarry

Edge of one of the disused gravel pits at Danbury Common

Grave of Edward Charlesworth

Mammillated sarsen stone found at Goldsands Pit in 2008

London Clay lobster from Maylandsea foreshore

Fossil shark tooth on Maylandsea beach.

Fish preserved in laminated clay at Marks Tey Brick Pit

Finely laminated silty clay at Marks Tey

Marks Tey Brick Pit - ERMS and EFC joint field visit

Marks Tey Brick Pit

East Mersea Restaurant Site

Cudmore Grove Cliffs

Hertfordshire puddingstone from Newney Green found by B.E.Brett

Newney Green Pit ice wedge polygons

Rolstons Pit in the late 19th century.

Engraving of Rolstons Pit in the late 19th century

Thorndon Country Park section before starting work

Jurassic fossil tree stump by Thorndon Visitor Centre

Examining the new Thorndon Country Park section in 2011

Thorndon Country Park geological interpretation board

Thorndon Country Park section under construction in 2011

Maximum extent of the ice sheet in Brentwood district

Cross section through Thorndon Country Park

Creating a section on Little Warley Common in 2001

Great Sampford Howe Lane Pit (exposure near south face) in 1980

Great Sampford Howe Lane Pit (W side of N face) in 1980

Great Sampford Howe Lane Pit (north face) in 1980

Ardleigh Gravel Pit in 1975 (organic silty clay)

Ardleigh Gravel Pit in 1975 (ice wedge cast)

Ardleigh Gravel Pit in 1975 (general view)

Routes of rivers during the last glacial stage

Holdens Wood in Great Warley

Extract from 1914-1924 OS map showing Buell Spring

Edwardian cottages in Warley Hill faced with Warley pebbles.

An active gravel pit in Holdens Wood in 1923

Well rounded pebbles in tree roots at Parsons Spring Gravel Pits

Chalk and Thanet Sand junction at Sandy Lane Quarry in 1979.

Wivenhoe and Cooks Green Gravel map

Ice Age fossil mammal bones

Coryphodon

Rhomb porphyry lava in the Mistley cobble wall

Tendring district in Waldringfield Gravel times.

Tendring district in Wivenhoe Gravel times.

Early courses of the Thames and Medway through Essex - 3.

Tendring district in Holland Gravel times.

Tendring district in Cooks Green Gravel times.

Early courses of the Thames and Medway through Essex - 4.

Tendring district in Clacton Channel times

Early courses of the Thames and Medway through Essex - 2.

Tendring district in Ardleigh and Oakley Gravel times.

The extent of the Anglian Ice Sheet in Essex.

The succession in the Canvey Island borehole (scale in metres).

Geological succession in the Harwich borehole (scale in metres).

The front of St.Johns Church

Colne Point Shingle Spit

Re-excavating the Hornchurch cutting in May 2010.

Stones at Beaumont Quay reused from London Bridge

Barling Gravel Pit in 1973.

Illustration in Dale of Beacon Cliff in 1730.

Giant fossil turtle from Harwich on display in Ipswich Museum.

Fossils from the Red Crag at The Naze

Fault in the London Clay in the Naze cliffs.

Involutions in the sediments at the top of the Naze cliffs.

Shark teeth from the London Clay at The Naze

The Naze cliffs and foreshore

Hyracotherium skull found at Harwich in 1856.

The excavation on Clacton Golf Course in 1970.

The Clacton spear point

Clactonian flint tools from Clacton cliffs.

The archaeological excavation on Clacton Golf Course in 1970.

The Clacton spear point.

Clactonian flint tools

The Harlow Puddingstone as found in 1966.

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