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Skye, Strath Suardal

Marble Quarry (19th Century) - (20th Century)

Site Name Skye, Strath Suardal

Classification Marble Quarry (19th Century) - (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Broadford Quarries

Canmore ID 11561

Site Number NG61NW 5

NGR NG 611 196

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Highland
  • Parish Strath
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Skye And Lochalsh
  • Former County Inverness-shire

Archaeology Notes

NG61NW 5 611 196.

(NG 611 196) Old Quarries (NAT)

OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

For other marble quarries nearby, see NG61NNW 7.00 and NG62SW 55.01.

The marble quarries near Broadford provided the stone for the great staircase at Aramadale Castle, and large quantities of it went to Hamilton Castle, and to the Board of Ordnance for mill-stones. The quarry was eventually abandoned on account of the included grit that rendered impossible the cutting of slabs of the requisite dimensions. J Anderson 1765; A Nicolson 1930.

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