Note

Event ID 1047910

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

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The expansion of quarrying on the north and west parts of Easdale took place between 1871 and 1899. This now flooded quarry, along with NM71NW 116 and NM71NW 117, is depicted and named on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey 25-inch map (Argyllshire, surveyed 1898, published 1899, sheet CXXI.7).

It is not depicted on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey 25-inch map (Argyllshire, surveyed 1871, published 1871, sheet CXXI.7). By 1899 it covers an area of some 1800 square metres (0.44 acres). It has also been connected to the tramway system (NM71NW 127) and is associated with buildings NM71NW 118.02 and structures NM71NW 118.01 and NM71NW 118.03 and the slate waste tip immediately to the south (centred NM73468 16963)..

As with other coast quarries on Easdale, this quarry was below sea level at the maximum extent of its working life. It has a retaining wall (see NM71NW 181.03). There is evidence that this quarry was still being worked in 1904.

Generally, quarrying on Easdale had ceased by 1914.

NRHE, MS/8087/3

Visited by HES, Survey and Recording Section, (MMD) 9 September 2015.