Rubislaw Quarry. Aberdeenshire. A view showing the huge oval pit-like form of this grey muscovite-biotite granite quarry with a smaller pit on the floor. The good stone was always at depth below the poor surface layers so the quarry became very deep. A method of hauling the stone from such depths was one using a local invention called 'blondin' wires. Several are seen stretched across the 122 m. deep quarry opening. Rubislaw is often regarded as the most famous of the Aberdeen granite quarries supplying building and monumental stone since it opened in 1741. Photo P000118. Reproduced with the permission of the British Geological Survey ©NERC. All rights Reserved.
This photograph is by carnkie and was uploaded December 11th 2009. © carnkie please do not copy or distribute without prior express permission.
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