Easdale, Quarry

This now flooded quarry is depicted and named 'Old Quarry' on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey 25-inch map (Argyllshire, surveyed 1871, published 1872, sheet CXXI.11) and so had been abandoned by this time.

This quarry covered an area of about 307 square metres (0.07 acres) on the 1872 and the 1899 Ordnance Survey 25-inch maps. It is now partially overlain on its west side by later slate waste. A map of 1850 compiled by the quarry manager, J Whyte, in Macdonald (1978, 41) refers to it as the small quarry 'in front of the grieve's cottage'.

This is one of three small abandoned quarries within the Camas Mor area on the south-west and south side of the island, although this one was not reworked at a later date.

There is no evidence surviving of any tramways (horse tramways were first introduced in the 1830s and steam locomotives in later 19th century) which may suggest the quarry was either exhausted before the 1830s (horse and carts in use leaving little physical trace, apart from pathways) or that the evidence of the tramways has been obliterated by coastal erosion and remodelling prior to 1872.

D Bremner (1869); M Macdonald (1979)

Visited by and information from HES, Survey and Recording Section, (MMD) 13 February 2019.