Archaeology Notes

Event ID 720152

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT63SW 24 centred 633 307

(Area NT 633 307) Old Quarries (NAT).

OS 6" map, Roxburghshire, (1924).

Old Quarries, Ploughlands. The right bank of the Ploughlands Burn immediately behind the school, and also both banks of the Broomhouse Burn SE of the highway at this point, have been deeply and extensively quarried. Dr McGregor and Mr Eckford believe that the red and purplish sandstones represented in the fabric of Melrose Abbey (RCAHMS 1956 No.567) may have been obtained from this quarry, where similar material is still to be seen in situ.a They likewise regard this quarry as the most probable source for the pale pinkish stones used at Dryburgh Abbey. (A G MacGregor and P J A Eckford).

RCAHMS 1956, visited 9 May 1950.

These old quarries are now overgrown, and those to the west of the school are being used as a refuse tip. Those on the south side of the road opposite the school are within a plantation. No further information.

Visited by OS (WDJ), 12 September 1962.