Typical Cotswold cottages at Little Barrington
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Typical Cotswold cottages at Little Barrington
Image: © John Winder Taken: 7 Sep 2014
These rather picturesque cottages are built of the pleasingly mellow Cotswold stone, which is an oolitic (love that word) Jurassic limestone, as far as I recall from my long - ago Polytechnic geology modules. Ooids are basically small fragments of shell or similar material which were washed around in shallow marine environments, in the course of which they gradually acquired a coating of calcium carbonate, and - like other fossils - they were buried in sediments which later became rocks. That took some remembering, and a little help from the internet!
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Image Location
Latitude
51.813815
Longitude
-1.702435