Slab Collection (page 2)

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 Preparation
Fishmonger cutting fillets of fish on slab with knife, newspapers hanging behind his head Date: 1930s

Livingstones Grave
Sightseers respectfully examine the slab marking the grave of DAVID LIVINGSTONE, Scottish missionary and traveller, whose body was brought here from Africa. Date: 1873

Jade
A block of jade measuring more than a metre across and weighing over half a tonne

Pallasite slab
The 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, brachiopod
Shown here is a slab containing many Silurian brachiopods. Brachiopods belong to their own phylum (Brachiopoda). General characteristics include a pair of protective shells

Chalcedony
Polished 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 trilobites
Trilobite Drepanura; inferred Upper Cambrian, Shantung Province, China. Mounted slab from Keeper?s Meeting Room

Opal
Fire 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 meteorite
A slab of the IAB iron meteorite Lueders showing the size, shapes and distribution of silicate inclusions. The slab is about 10cm wide

Imitation turquoise
A slab of imitiation turquoise. True specimens of turquoise are among the most valuable non-transparent minerals

Lapis lazuli from Afghanistan
Polished 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 1937
A 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, Ireland
Three 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 Wales
A workman moving slate waste at Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, Nantlle Valley, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales

Workman with tram, Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, North Wales
A 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 Avon
A 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 Gold
Engraving of a bar of gold, a small slab weighing sixteen pounds, worth about 800 in 1845"

Gringoire Pate Advert
A gourmet tucks into a huge slab of Gringoires game pate, just one of their range of pates and conserves

Third Treasury Mycenae
The 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 Degradation
Degradation 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

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