IDNO

LS.115759.TC1

Description

View of a cliff with holes, possibly windows, cut into the cliff face. On top of the cliffs are two buildings, and in the bottom left of the picture is an animal which looks like a camel or donkey. [JD 31/8/2012]

Place

N Africa; Libya; northern Cyrenaica; Gulf of Sirte; Wadi Derna

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

McBurneys and Hey’s Expeditions to northern Cyrenaican, 1947, 1948, and 1952

Date

circa 1947 - 1952

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Photograph (a) of Plate 4, page 312 of ‘Prehistory & Pleistocene Geology in Cyrenaican Libya’ by McBurney and Hey, with the following caption:
"East Bank of Wadi Derna, just outside Derna town walls, showing deposits of higher terrace. The deposits here are well bedded, and consist mainly of broken and rolled fragments of tufa. A remnant of the lower terrace is just visible on the left."
[EMR 31/8/2012]