Local quarry
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Local quarry
Image: © Jonathan Wilkins Taken: 19 Apr 2013
An essentially disused quarry, typical of the local working of useful outcrops when building materials were too heavy to transport far. The rock here is identified as the Nantglyn Flags Formation, of Silurian age, although the lower part of the working face seems remarkably un-flaggy in aspect.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.182278
Longitude
-3.63598