Calcite from Chipping Sodbury Quarry, Gloucestershire

Calcite from Chipping Sodbury Quarry, Gloucestershire

Nice piece of Calcite from Chipping Sodbury Quarry.

Our single specimen has a range of colours, primarily a buff to desert sandy brown, with some greys and paler brown. It has an orangey-yellow fluorescence under 365nm UV light.

Chipping Sodbury Quarry was formerly known as Hampstead Farm Quarry - both in Sodbury, Gloucestershire, UK.