black slate
Date
25 May 1692
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p86
Material
Dimensions
height (Page): 312mm
width (Page): 191mm
width (Page): 191mm
Subject
Description
A drawing in the margin of the Journal Book, indicating the shape of a black slate found in the mines of Somersetshire, reported by John Beaumont on 25 May 1692.
Object history
25 May 1692, 'There was produced a piece of black slate found by Mr Beaumont in the Mines in Sumersetshire, it was curiously mark't with leaves as in the Margent [=margin], ranged exactly in Parallelograms, or Rhomb, having the lesser Angle about 49 gr: the whole was very near a true plaine. Mr Hunt was ordered to take the impression in plaister' (JBO/10/086).
Related fellows
John Beaumont (1645 - 1731, British) , Physician
Associated place