Archaeology Notes

Event ID 771948

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO30NE 23.01 Centred 3521 0897

The present Cults Limeworks are situated in an angle of two public roads to the S of Cults Farm. The works consist of a series of concrete and brick buildings, kilns and stone crushing equipment extending over an area some 250m by 100m. Two gas-fired shaft kilns (dating from 1929) are now used as hoppers for crushed limestone and have not burned lime since 1968. The kilns can be seen in working condition on photographs taken in the late 1920s and 1960s which are hung in the office at the works (copies held in RCAHMS, D07442-4). The present works produces a variety of powdered limestone products, the bulk of which goes to be mixed with bitumen. A hammer mill also produces comparatively coarse spreading lime for agricultural use. The works imports some limestone from local stone quarries, but most is now brought mainly from Shap in Cumbria.

The works are depicted on the current OS large scale plans (OS 1:2500, 1965, plans NO 3408 & NO 3508) as a series of roofed buildings at the NE end of the quarry complex.

(Information passed to RCAHMS by Mr Cochrane, the owner of the works.)