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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
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/11561
- Council Highland
- Parish Strath
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
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.
