Granite Collection (page 5)

Egypt. The Pyramids of Giza. Pyramids of Khafre and Menkaure
Egypt. The Pyramids of Giza. Pyramids of Khafre (or Chephren) and Menkaure (or Mykerinos). 26th century B.C. 4th Dynasty. Old Kingdom

Egypt. The Pyramids of Giza. Pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and M
Egypt. The Pyramids of Giza. Great Pyramid of Giza (known as the Great Pyramid and the Pyramid of Cheops or Khufu), the Pyramid of Khafre (or Chephren) and the Pyramid of Menkaure (or Mykerinos)

Egypt. The Great Pyramid of Giza called the Pyramid of Menka
Egypt. The Great Pyramid of Giza called Pyramid of Menkaure. The smallest of the three Pyramids of Giza. Tomb of the fourth-dynasty pharaoh Menkaure. Detail. 26th century B.C. Old Kingdom

The Rosetta Stone. Greek scripture
The Rosetta Stone. Fragment of a black granite stele with an inscription in different languages A?a?A?a?of a decree of Ptolemy V Epiphanes king. Greek scripture. Detail. Ptolemaic era. 196 BC

The Rosetta Stone. Hieroglyphical and demotic scripture
The Rosetta Stone. Fragment of a black granite stele with an inscription in different languages A?a?A?a?of a decree of Ptolemy V Epiphanes. Ptolemaic era. 196 BC

The Rosetta Stone. Hieroglyphical scripture
The Rosetta Stone. Fragment of a black granite stele with an inscription in different languages A?a?A?a?of a decree of Ptolemy V Epiphanes king. Ptolemaic era. 196 BC. Detail

The Rosetta Stone. Demotic and Greek scripture
The Rosetta Stone. Fragment of a black granite stele with an inscription in different languages A?a?A?a?of a decree of Ptolemy V Epiphanes king. Ptolemaic era. 196 BC. Demotic and Greek scripture

Sevastopol. Monument to the Scuttled Ships
Ukraine. Sevastopol. Monument to the Scuttled Ships. 1905. By A.G. Adamson, V.A. Feldman and O.I. Enberg. Sevastopol bay

United States. Washington D. C. Washington Monument. Obelisk
United States. Washington D.C. Washington Monument. Obelisk built to commemorate the first U.S. President, George Washington (1732-1799). National Mall

Sacred beetle. Giant statue, built by Pharaoh Amenhotep III
Egyptian Art. Sacred beetle. Giant statue, built by Pharaoh Amenhotep III (Imenhetep III). Represents Khepri, god of sunrise. Sacred Lake. Temple of Karnak. Around Luxor. Dynasty XVIII. New Kingdom

Goddess Sekhmet, Sculpture. Detail. Medinet Habu. Egypt
Goddess Sekhmet, goddess of war, represented with head of a lioness and the human body and crowned with the solar disk. Detail. Sculpture in the mortuary temple of Ramses III (1187-1156 BC)

Ramesseum. Granite bust of Pharaoh Ramses II. Egypt
Rameseum. Granite bust of Pharaoh Ramses II. 13th century B.C. Nineteenth Dynasty. New Kingdom. Necropolis of Thebes. Valley of the Kings. Egypt

Dolmen of Cova d En Daina. Near Romanya de la Selva. Catalon
Dolmen of Cova d en Daina. Near Romanya de la Selva. Catalonia. Spain

Bunker Hill monument, Charlestown, Boston
Built to commemorate the Battle of Bunker Hill, the first major conflict between British and Patriot forces in the American revolutionary war

Syria / Palmya / Pillars
Some of the fine granite pillars and colonnades at Palmyra. Date: 1872

View of Hay Tor Rocks, Dartmoor, Devon
View of Hay Tor (Haytor) Rocks, a granite tor on the eastern edge of Dartmoor, Devon. Date: circa 1980s

Stonemason working with granite in a workshop. Date: circa 1970s

London at Night - Cleopatras Needle and Victoria Embankment. The red granite obelisk was brought to London from Egypt in 1878 - its base is flanked by two bronze statues of the sphinx. Date: 1932

Merry Maidens stone circle, near St Buryan, Cornwall
The Merry Maidens, nineteen granite megaliths also known as Dawns Men (Dans Maen or Stone Dance), a late neolithic stone circle, near St Buryan, not far from Lands End, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Castle Drogo, near Drewsteignton, Devon. Designed by Edwin Lutyens, it was completed in 1930, and is a Grade I listed building now owned by the National Trust

Men-an-Tol standing stones, near Madron, Cornwall
Men-an-Tol (hole stone, Crick Stone), a small formation of three standing stones near Madron, Cornwall. Seen here are two of the granite stones, dating from the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age

Marconi plaque, Bass Point, The Lizard, Cornwall
A plaque to Guglielmo Marconi, set in a granite wall near some buildings on the sea shore at Bass Point, The Lizard, Cornwall

Quiller-Couch memorial pillar, Fowey, Cornwall
Granite memorial pillar to Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944), Cornishman, writer and scholar, at Penleath Point, Fowey, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Minerals including amazonite, porphyry, chlorite and granite.. Chromolithograph from Dr. Adolph Kenngotts Mineralogy section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schuberts Natural History, Schreiber, Munich, 1886

Drilling rig at Rosemanowes Quarry, Penryn, Cornwall
Drilling rig at Rosemanowes granite quarry, near Penryn, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Kotten Granite Surfacing Machine, New York, USA. Showing CE Abaire Date: 1900s

Post Office building, St Paul, Minnesota, USA
The Post Office building, St Paul, Minnesota, USA. It was built of St Cloud granite, in Romanesque style, completed in 1902. Date: 1908

Granite quarry, Barre, Vermont, USA
Granite quarry belonging to E L Smith & Co, Barre, Vermont, USA. 1908

Granite power house, Barre, Vermont, USA
Granite power house and dump piles belonging to Barclay Brothers, Barre, Vermont, USA. Date: circa 1908

Ramses III. 1180 BC. Egyptian art. New Kingdom. Sculpture on rock. EGYPT. CAIRO. Cairo. Egyptian Museum. Proc: EGYPT. Mit-Rahineh

South Africa - Umtali Road, Sugar Loaf Kopje
Black and white image of sugar-loaf kopje (granite mountain) on the Umtali Road, South Africa.. Part of Box 287, South Africa Diamond Mines, Boswell Collection. Slide number 14. Date: circa 1890s

Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) - Coach in Matoppos
Black and white lantern Slide of Coach in Matoppos - British South Africa. Part of Box 288, British South Africa. Boswell Collection

Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) - view in Matoppos
Black and white lantern Slide of View in Matoppos - British South Africa. Part of Box 288, British South Africa. Boswell Collection

Temple of Horus at Edfu, Egypt
Temple of Horus at Edfu. Granite statue of Horus the hawk god wearing the combined crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt. 1961. Date: 1961

Scorriton Cross
Milk churns from the farm, awaiting collection beside Scorriton Cross, a large granite cross at a road junction near Holne, Dartmoor, Devon, England. Date: 1950s

Consols Mine Raswall Hill and the Road Zennor to Farms. The White you See is Granite (c.1936). Wallis, Alfred 1855-1942. Date: 1936 (circa)

Old Arch - St. Ives, Cornwall
Old Granite Arch - Hicks Court, St. Ives, Cornwall Date: circa 1910

Brazil - Rio de Janeiro, Sugarloaf Mountain cable railway
Brazil - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sugarloaf Mountain with cable railway. In the foreground is the (now-demolished) Military Academy building, which was located on Praia Vermelha. Date: circa 1905

Monument to Joan of Arc at Bonsecours, France
Memorial to Joan of Arc built in an early Renaissance style and standing in front of the Basilica de Bonsecours, Normandy, France on a granite terrace overlooking the Seine valley. Date: circa 1908

Granite, collected by Dr Benza from the summit of the Western range of Kaitee Valley, Neilgherries, India c.1837. NHM specimen number: BM 651

Junction of granite and limestone
Fig 88 from Principles of Geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the Earths surface. Vol. 3 1832-33 by Charles Lyell (1797-1875)

Orthoclase (potassium aluminum silicate) is a major granite forming mineral. Specimen from Brevik, Norway

Cornubian granite batholith
The Cornubian granite batholith and its main outcrops in the Cornwall and Devon area, Southwest England. From Britain Before Man 1978, by F W Dunning

Common rock types
A collection of common rock types - left to right - Igneous (granite), sedimentary (sandstone) and metamorphic (schist)

The cliff edge engine houses of Wheal Trewavas
Situated on the Tregonning granite at Trewavas Head, south Cornwall. Image used in Minerals of Cornwall and Devon by P.G. Embrey and R.F. Symes, 1987, page 40. See also 4072

Unakite

Observing structure of rock
Looking at fresh granite under a microscope to study structure, granular composition can clearly be seen

Granite from Ailsa Craig
A photomicrograph of granite taken between crossed polarisers. Granite is an igneous rock

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