Former Quarry
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Former Quarry
Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 25 Aug 2015
The First Series six-inch Ordnance Survey map shows a large number of tiny whinstone quarries in this area. Whinstone is the quarrymen's term for hard crystalline rock that geologists now recognise as dolerite. Interestingly, the late Victorian six-inch map doesn't show a large quarry here, so the whole thing must have been opened, worked and abandoned in the course of the 20th century.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.918946
Longitude
-3.73495