THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE COPROLITE MINING RUSH (second hand copy in very good condition)

  
THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE COPROLITE MINING RUSH

(second hand copy in very good condition) (scarce booklet)

By Richard Grove

From the introduction:

When Professor J. S. Henslow, at a meeting of the British Association in 1845, stated that “a stratum of Greensand", no more than a foot thick, occurred near the surface over many square miles in the vicinity of Cambridge, it could not have occurred to him, or to his listeners, that within a few decades the sleepiest of agricultural villages in Cambridgeshire would have been the centre of land speculation on an unprecedented scale.

This booklet was the first comprehensive account of the Cambridgeshire mining rush for ‘coprolites’, which also concerned parts of Bedfordshire.

Published by The Oleander Press. 1976. Soft cover booklet. 51 pages. Black and white photographs, maps and diagrams throughout. Very good condition.