Pottery / sherd

Limestone used in smelting, one of a collection of specimens illustrating the cast and malleable iron manufacture of Monkland district, Airdrie

Oolitic limestone- a small polished slab - gradational red and dark yellow banded composed wholly of ooids - with some sparse colourless veining - locality unknown

Limestone - a small greyish-brown block - from Gerolstein, Eifel Mountains, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Limestone, coral - brown, dark brown and grey - with various fossil corals - possibly from Devon, England

Crinoidal limestone, from Crailsheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.

Weathered coral limestone - buff coloured - fossiliferous - from Catcraig, near Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland.

Water-eroded crinoidal limestone, from between River North Esk and Glen Esk House, Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland.

Water-eroded limestone, from near Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland.

Dolomitised magnesian limestone, polished brown slab, banded and mottled, from Ontario, Canada

Limestone - folded - a grey and ocherous yellow cut slice - displaying folds, fault and trace fossil Pholas borings - from Val d' Arno, Italy, EUROPE.

Limestone conglomerate, arenaceous in places, pink yellow hue, Comercially named Pietre di Finale. from Nr Finale Marina, Genoa, Italy , EUROPE

Hand Specimen: Somewhat yellowish grey limestone, of slightly crystalline structure presenting unequal fracture.

Yellowish brown limestone, extremely rich in living forms of littoral Lamellibranch and Gastropod molluscs, from Leghorn, (Livorno), Tuscany, Italy. Forms extensive strata near the present coastline, nearly horizontal, known as Panchina. This stone is very extensively employed at Leghorn (Livorno) for making the sea wall, quays, etc. and is very durable.

Ferruginous argillaceous limestone, hand specimen, recrystalised, wine red in colour: from the Lower Jurassic epoch and Lias of Campiglia Marittima, Tuscany, Italy

Hand Specimen, Limestone (Trubo), Pale Yellowish white marly limestone termed "Trubo"