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Marble slab with funerary inscription in greek. Dated in the year 1235. Byzantine Museum. Athens. Greece
Walla Brook Bridge, a single massive slab of stone across a stream. Date: 1905
Commercial Fish PreparationFishmonger cutting fillets of fish on slab with knife, newspapers hanging behind his head Date: 1930s
Livingstones GraveSightseers respectfully examine the slab marking the grave of DAVID LIVINGSTONE, Scottish missionary and traveller, whose body was brought here from Africa. Date: 1873
JadeA block of jade measuring more than a metre across and weighing over half a tonne
Pallasite slabThe Esquel pallasite, composed of gem-quality olivine crystals embedded in metal. Pallasites are perhaps the most beautiful of all meteorites. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London
Columber kargi
Camarotoechi, brachiopodShown here is a slab containing many Silurian brachiopods. Brachiopods belong to their own phylum (Brachiopoda). General characteristics include a pair of protective shells
ChalcedonyPolished slab of chalcedony with radiating structure. Chalcedony or agate is a variety of cryptocrystalline quartz (silicon dioxide)
British marble specimens
Butterfly stone Hu-die-shih trilobitesTrilobite Drepanura; inferred Upper Cambrian, Shantung Province, China. Mounted slab from Keeper?s Meeting Room
OpalFire opal in a matrix slab of alunite from Guatemala. Opals are not truely crystalline and are therefore mineraloids. They comprise of (hydrated silica glass)
Slab of the Lueders meteoriteA slab of the IAB iron meteorite Lueders showing the size, shapes and distribution of silicate inclusions. The slab is about 10cm wide
Imitation turquoiseA slab of imitiation turquoise. True specimens of turquoise are among the most valuable non-transparent minerals
Lapis lazuli from AfghanistanPolished slab of lapis lazuli containing some brassy-coloured pyrite. Lapis lazuli (sodium calcium aluminum silicate sulphur sulphate) is a rich blue opaque, semi-precious stone
Polished slab of jade
St Patricks Grave, Downpatrick, Co. Down, Northern Ireland Date: 1920s
Slab Cake Selection 1937A range of handsome and high class slab cakes are offered, including the Waverley, Oxford, Melbourne, Dundee and West End. Date: 1937
Street repairs in Dublin, IrelandThree men busy doing street repairs in Dublin, Ireland. The man on the left is laying a paving slab. There are some rather ornate advertisements on the hoarding behind them, one for a family chemist
Moving slate waste, Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, North WalesA workman moving slate waste at Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, Nantlle Valley, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales
Workman with tram, Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, North WalesA workman pushing a tram loaded with large slabs of slate, at the Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, Nantlle Valley, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales
Shakespeares grave, Stratford upon AvonA view of Shakespeares grave in the chancel of Holy Trinity Church, Stratford upon Avon. The stone slab covering his grave is inscribed with a curse against anyone who disturbs his bones
Bullion Office. Bank of England. Bar of GoldEngraving of a bar of gold, a small slab weighing sixteen pounds, worth about 800 in 1845"
Gringoire Pate AdvertA gourmet tucks into a huge slab of Gringoires game pate, just one of their range of pates and conserves
Third Treasury MycenaeThe Third Treasury at Mycenae. Later Greeks described the massive polygonal masonry at Mycenae as Cyclopean, built of stones that only a Cyclops could lift. The name has stuck
Drunken DegradationDegradation of Drunkenness : There is no sin which doth more deface Gods image than drunkenness... a curious slab set on a wall in the village of Kirdford, Sussex, England