'Silex arenacea' mb-code DCA_102848 Alan Hitchcock and John Sainty

Alan Hitchcock and John Sainty

George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley pictured in front of the Forbidden Palace in Tiananmen Square

Originally built for experimental purposes

Newgate Pump

The plate is headed 'LIFE BOAT CXI

'Silex arenacea' mb-code DCA_102848 Alan Hitchcock and John SaintyFossil shells in sandstone, here termed 'calcereous sandstone'. Plate 15 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 'Masses of this were found at near twelve feet deep in a lightly gravel stratum, in cutting the canal at the Isle of Dogs' The plate is inscribed: 'Feb. 1 1803. Published by Jas. Sowerby,