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On a Faceted Quartzite Pebble from a Coal-seam at Ashby-de-la-Zouche

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

H. G. Mantle
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Extract

The pebble about to be described was found in the Middle Louth Seam at Swannington Colliery, near Ashby-de-la-Zouche, in Leicestershire, and was presented to the writer in the year 1899 by the late Mr. Henry Copson Peake, who at that time was manager of the Swannington Colliery and also general manager of the Walsall Wood Collieries, near Walsall.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 64 , Issue 3 , March 1927 , pp. 123 - 124
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1927

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References

page 123 note 1 Bonney, , Proc. Comb. Phil. Soc., ii (1864–1876), p. 301Google Scholar; Geol. Mag. (1873), p. 287.Google Scholar

Note.—A fragment of this boulder was bequeathed by the late Professor Bonney to the Sedgwiek Museum, Cambridge.

page 123 note 2 Lister, J. H. and Stobbs, J. T., “Erratics in Coal-seams”: Trans. North Staff. Field Club, li (1916–1917), p. 33. See also Idem, lii, pp. 93–5, and vol. liv (1918), pp. 100–1.Google Scholar

page 124 note 1 This was a feature noted by Mr. Stobbs in the case of one of the Woodhead boulders (No. 4).