All the agate on this site have been scanned using a modern flat bed 1200 dpi scanner. This has allowed the images to be enlarged on the computer such that even very fine detail can be seen, even in the average agate. Agates from some localities are particularly detailed at high magnification. The details in some may suggest landscapes but others are more like abstract colourful artwork. I have attempted here to show some of the more interesting and complex of these images.

These agates have, if you like, been frozen in time and are not visible to the naked eye. They show colours, striations, banding, mineralization and artefacts that have been revealed below their surface. The result is a frozen dimension of flowing natural colours and shapes.

Even though these images may only represent very small areas within the polished face of the agate they are however spectacular. We are, of course not the first to notice this but some of the Scottish agates are particularly good for these abstract views. None of the agates on this site have been dyed or in any other way altered from their natural state and the colours shown are as near natural as can be achieved.