Field Visit
This slate waste heap is not depicted on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey 25-inch map pf Easdale (Argyllshire, surveyed 1898, published 1899, sheet CCXXI.11). It exhibits much revetment on its steepest (south) side in order to ensure that it did not collapse during construction (slate waste is unstable when piled in heaps due to its lamination when broken up during quarrying activity).
The tramway which brought waste to the heap runs between the junction with the main Windmill Quarry/Hill Quarry and dates from after 1898, and was probably created after the re-opening of Hill Quarry c.1902.
NRS: GD/112/18/18, Report on the Easdale Slate Quarries, September 1902, (Breadalbane Papers).
The bridge created over a former tramway bed running west/east along the south side of the island and which carried the tramway to access the dumping area is now lost (see DP264547). The substantial abutments of this bridge are in reasonably good condition.
Visited by Survey and Recording (MMcD), August 2017.
