Quarry in Battlehill
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Quarry in Battlehill by Anne Burgess as part of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over 14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Quarry in Battlehill
Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 11 Feb 2015
This looks to me very like a disused quarry, which presumably exploited the igneous intrusive gabbro and norite formed here by intrusions of silica-poor magma approximately 444 to 488 million years ago in the Ordovician Period. However the information board says it is an events area. I hope they can manage to drain it if they plan to hold events in it!
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
57.443556
Longitude
-2.769339