Archibald Geikie on the
Last Elevation of
Scotland
by Leonard G. Wilson
Flint implement
from St. Acheul
near Amiens
Illustration from Charles Lyell, The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man, 4th
edition (1873).
Archibald Geikie
(1835-1924)
Archibald Geikie at age 33.
Extracted from a group photo of the Scottish Survey staff, 1868, printed in R. B. Wilson, A History of the Geological Survey in Scotland, 1977.
Geikie’s Section of the Sand-pit, Junction Road, Leith
A. Geikie, “On a rise of the coast of the Firth of Forth…,” Edinburgh New Phil. J., n.s.14 (1861).
William Carruthers
(1830-1922)
Portrait from the Geological Magazine, 1912; reprinted in H. N. Andrews, The Fossil Hunters (1980).
Carruthers’ Section of the Beds at Junction Road, Leith
W. Carruthers, “On a section at Junction-Road, Leith,” Quart. J. Geol. Soc. London, 18 (1862).
David Milne Home
(1805-1890)
Portrait by an unknown artist.
Reproduced in the Dictionary of National Biography.
The Antonine Wall and the Roman Road
Across the Forth River at the Drip
Numbers represent small forts along wall.
Endpaper in O. G. S. Crawford, Topography of Roman Scotland (1949).
Distance-slab set up by the Second Legion at Bridgeness
Plate III in Sir George MacDonald, The Roman Wall in Scotland (1934).
Ground Plan of Projecting Knoll at Bridgeness
----- Supposed Track of Roman Wall
Sketch I in Milne Home, “On the supposed upheaval of Scotland…” Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, 27 (1876).
Old Sea Cliff about 25 Feet Above Present High Water, and by
----- Line, the Supposed Track of Roman Wall
Sketch III in Milne Home, “On the supposed upheaval of Scotland…” Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, 27 (1876).