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Fossil hunter, folklorist, evangelist, stonemason, newspaper editor, social justice campaigner, & geologist, Hugh Miller (1802–1856) – born #OTD, 10 Oct – deserves to be remembered in the company of Carlyle, Ruskin, Matthew Arnold & JS Mill as one of the leading moral & social thinkers of the 19th century

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#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #geology #fossil #HughMiller

A faded 19th-century sepia photograph of Hugh Miller. He is standing, dressed in workman's overalls, his shirt-sleeves rolled up. He has bushy hair and large sideburns, and his left elbow is propped up on a carved gravestone. His right hand rests on a large stonemason's maul, and he holds a chisel in his left hand.

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An Ammonite fossil in a limestone wall in Newton St Loe, near #Bath #Somerset #UK. They are met with frequently in the rocks around Bath, and in the 18th Century were thought to be snakes turned to stone.
#Fossil #Ammonite #Photography #Geology

An ammonite in a stone wall. A spiral shapped fossil with yellow lichens growing on it.

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