Basalt Collection

Bamburgh Castle, perched on a basalt outcrop on the edge of the North Sea at Bamburgh, Northumberland, it played a great part in the Border Wars (with Scotland)

The Giants Causeway, on the coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is a promontory of collumnar basalt polygonal pillars, mainly pentagonal and hexagonal. Date: 1930s

Basalt columns in Fingals Cave, Staffa, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. Handcoloured steel engraving by Pfitzer from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire Pittoresque d Histoire Naturelle

Basalt bomb
Geological specimen collected by Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition. It had a broad scientific programme and collected thousands of geological

Microscope image of the Pasamonte eucrite
Microscopic image of the Pasamonte eucrite showing a basaltic texture. Field of view is 2.5mm across

The Giants Causeway, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
The Giants Causeway - The Honeycomb - 40, 000 interlocking basalt columns on the coast at County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Date: circa 1930s

The Giants Organ, Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland
The Giants Organ, Giant's Causeway, Country Antrim, Northern Ireland. Date: circa 1910s

Obelisk, Thorshavn, Faroe Islands
Vintage c.1900 photograph: obelisk, Thorshavn, Faroe Islands. A basalt obelisk erected in 1882 to commemorate the visit of the Danish king Christian IXs visit to the Faroe Islands in 1874

English tourists on a boat near the basalt pillars
English tourists falling overboard on a boat in choppy seas near the basalt pillars of Staffa, Inner Hebrides. Doctor Prosody proves the inconvenience of a timid companion at Staffa

English tourist sketching the waterfall from Ossian s
English tourist sketching the Black Linn falls of the Braan River from Ossians Hall of Mirrors, Dunkeld, Scotland. A dog attacks its reflection and Dr. Factobend smashes a mirror

English tourists watch fishermen opening pearl oysters
English tourists watch Scottish fishermen opening pearl oysters on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Doctor Prosody fishing for pearls in the Isle of Sky

Basalt columns on a mountainside in Westphalia, Germany. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelms Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte: Des Mineralreichs, Augsburg, 1828

View of the basalt columns of Giants Causeway, Antrim, Northern Ireland. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelms Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte: Des Mineralreichs

Egyptian gods and goddesses
Statue of an Egyptian god in basalt in the Vatican Museum 1, Egyptian goddess Isis in the Museum of the Profane in the Vatican Library 2, Egyptian deity from the Pantanello in Tivoli 3

Teapots, cream jugs and sucrier
Large teapot in blue jasper with reliefs by Lady Templeton, pink jasper ewer with Venus (top L), basalt sucrier (bottom L)

Wedgwood chatelaine, vase and sword
Mounted Wedgwood ceramics: chatelaine in steel and gold, vase formed of basalt sucrier, ormolu and marble, and court sword in hand-wrought steel. Chromolithograph by W

Basalt vase for a lamp. Chromolithograph by W. Griggs from Frederick Rathbones Old Wedgwood, the Decorative or Artistic Ceramic Work Produced by Josiah Wedgwood, Quaritch, London, 1898

Basalt portrait of Rousseau. Chromolithograph drawn by Grivell and lithographed by Parrot et Co. from Frederick Rathbones Old Wedgwood

Basalt portrait of Voltaire. Chromolithograph drawn by Grivell and lithographed by Parrot et Co. from Frederick Rathbones Old Wedgwood

Memorial vase in basalt with angel weeping over a tomb. Chromolithograph drawn by Grivell and lithographed by Parrot et Co

Bust of young Roman general Germanicus
Basalt bust of young Roman general Germanicus Julius Caesar. Chromolithograph drawn by Grivell and lithographed by Parrot et Co

Bust of the Egyptian idol Canopus, god of water, in basalt found in the Canopus of Hadrians Villa at Tivoli. Copperplate drawn

Statue of the Egyptian goddess Isis with the attributes of Flora in basalt. Copperplate engraving from Pietro Paolo Montagnani-Mirabilis Il Museo Capitolino (The Capitoline Museum), Rome, 1820

Basalt cliffs in Mexico. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Roberto Freschi from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1841

Native American fishing boats in front of New Eddystone Rock, a pillar of basalt in Alaska. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sasso from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Geological sections and plan of a coal mine
Plan of a coal mine and mode of ventilation, 19th century. Geological sections of metallic veins, chalk, basalt, and limestone

Basalt columns, Tasman Island, Tasmania, Australia
View of Tasman Island, Tasmania, Australia, showing the formations of basalt columns. Date: circa 1860

Climbing the Giants Causeway, Northern Ireland
A man gives a helping hand to a woman as they climb the basalt columns to the top of the Giants Causeway, Northern Ireland Date: 1989

Syria. Damascus. Khan As ad Pasha, old caravanserai built 1751. Ottoman style. Interior. Near East. Photo before Syrian civil war

Statue of a Assyrian King Shalmaneser III (858-824 BC)
Shalmaneser III (858-824 BC). Assyrian king. Statue. Basalt. Neo-Assyrian Period. Assur (Qalat Sharqat). Archaeological Museum. Istanbul. Turkey

Hittite art. Stele of King Bar-Rakib (744-727 BC) sitting o
Hittite art. Orthostat or stele of King Bar-Rakib (Barrakit 744-727 BC) sitting on the throne.750 BC. Zone of Sma al /Zincirli (Turkey) to South of Turkey. Detail. Pergamon Museum. Museum Island

Neo-Hittite hieroglyphic Inscription from Carchemish, Syria
Hieroglyphic inscription, Neo-Hittite, c9th century BC. A large relief carving on a basalt slab found near Aleppo, Syria - the Carchemish (Karkemish) site

Basalt caryatids guarding the temple of Tell Halaf. Syria
Syria. Entrance to the Aleppo National Museum. Basalt caryatids guarding the temple of Tell Halaf

Relief depicting a war chariot. Orthostat. Basalt. 9th centu
Orthostat with relief depicting a war chariot. 9th century BC. Basalt. Late Hitite Period. From the west side of citadel gate, Sam al (Sinjerli). Archaeological Museum. Museum of Ancient Orient

Hittite art. Orthostat. 8th century BC. Relief: Hunting a lion. Found in old city of Sma al /Zincirli (Turkey). Pergamon Museum. Museum Island. Berlin. Germany

Hittite art. Colossal statue of the Weather God Hadad. Gerds
Hittite art. Colossal statue of the Weather God Hadad. Found in Gerdshin, near Sma al /Zincirli (Turkey). Basalt. 775 BC. Pergamon Museum. Museum Island. Berlin. Germany

Islam. Tombstone of al-Ghaliya, daughter of Abd al-Jabbar
Islamic art. Tombstone of al-Ghaliya, daughter of Abd al-Jabbar, son of al- Ala. 9th century. Basalt : 69x45x13 cm. al-Ma la cementery, Mecca. National Museum, Riyadh. Saudi Arabia

Lions hunt relief. Sakcegozu Palace. Hitite. 750 BC
Relief depicting a lions hunt. 750 BC. Basalt. Detail. From the Palace of Sakcegozu, Anatolia. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany

Syria. Baniyas. Margat castle, also known as Marqab from the Arabic Qalaat al-Marqab. It was a Crusader fortress and one of the major strongholds of the Knights Hospitaller. Built in 1062

Pre-Columbian Art. Aztec. Mexico. Seated Deity (Macuilxochitl). 15thearly 16th century. Basalt. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States

Mangrove tree sapling grows on basalt rock June sea shore near Le Prince Maurice Hotel Poste de Flacq East of Mauritius

East of Ilot Gabriel island sea shore with black basalt rocks a wind-battered Common screwpine tree with aerial roots visible endemic for Mascarenes (Mauritius and Reunion) June North of Mauritius

Moon rock fragment from the last Apollo space mission, Apollo 17, encased in perspex on a wooden plaque. The thumbnail-size rock is around 3.7 billion years old

Basalt columns, Real del Monte mine, Mexico
Engraving of a sketch by Alexander Humboldt, 1810 Date: 1810

Nespekasuti, Scribe of Karnak. 490 BC. Ethiopian age. Egyptian art. Sculpture on rock. EGYPT. CAIRO. Cairo. Egyptian Museum

Kailashnath Temple. 8th c. INDIA. Ellora. Ellora Caves. Ellora. Cave 16. Hindu temple carved into a basalt cliff. It is designed to recall Mount Kailash, the abode of Lord Shiva

Door. Basalt. Tiberias. Roman period. 2nd-3rd century AD. Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. Jerusalem. Israel

Indurated lias, Shale in Basalt, in rock structure in Portru
(see WAG 3605) a view of indurated lias, Shale in Basalt, in rock structure in Portrush (dyke). (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Portrush). Date: circa early 1900s

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