'Silex quartzum' mb-height 5337 Great Hall of Eltham Palace

Great Hall of Eltham Palace

Bill Foulkes

City of London Lying-In Hospital

10th April 1965

View of visitors arriving at the east end of the pavilion on Holborn Viaduct

'Silex quartzum' mb-height 5337 Great Hall of Eltham PalaceEight specimens of flint pebbles, generally split or sectioned, from various locations including from near London and from Norwich in Norfolk. Plate 88 from British mineralogy: or coloured figures intended to elucidate the mineralogy of Great Britain, by James Sowerby, volume 1 (London, R. Taylor & Co., 1804). The accompanying text states that 'Flint pebbles, so universally known in the vicinity of London, are not so well known everywhere The forms