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2023

Journal article

The geological and historical milieu of an ornamental cephalopod limestone (‘orthoceratite limestone’, Ordovician, Sweden) used in the Clerk Mausoleum (1684), St Mungo's Kirkyard, Penicuik, Scotland

A slab of cephalopod limestone bears a dedicatory Latin inscription on the mausoleum built around 1684 by Sir John Clerk of Penicuik (1649–1722) for his wife Elizabeth Henderson (1658–83) at St Mungo's Church, Penicuik, near Edinburgh, Scotland. The stone is identified on sedimentological and palaeontological evidence and historical context as...

Taylor, Michael A ; McMillan, Andrew A ; Stewart, Sarah E ; Anderson, Lyall I
orthoceratite limestone, sedimentological and palaeontological evidence, Sweden, Elizabeth Henderson, Penicuik mausoleum, and cephalopod limestone