Easdale, Camas Mor Quarry

The site of this quarry is depicted as flooded (but not named) on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey [OS] 25-inch map (Argyllshire, surveyed 1871, published 1872, sheet CXXI.11) and surrounded by shingle material or slate waste. The probability is that it had been abandoned by 1871 (date of OS survey).

This quarry covered an area of about 273 square metres (0.06 acres) on the 1872 Ordnance Survey 25-inch map. The site would have been buried under slate waste between 1899 (2nd edition Ordnance Survey 25-inch map (Argyllshire, surveyed 1871, published 1872, sheet CXXI.11)) and 1946 (it is not visible on a 1946 RAF aerial photograph - NCAP_SCOT_106G_SCOT_UK_0049_4267, 6 May 1946).

This is one of four, small quarries on the south-west and south side of the island (1st edition Ordnance Survey [OS] 25-inch map (Argyllshire, surveyed 1871, published 1872, sheet CXXI.11)) and lies in the area referred to as Camas Mor in the south of the island which was an area of intensive quarrying.

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

Bremner (1869)

Visited (September 2015) by, and information from HES, Survey and Recording Section, (MMD) 13 February 2019.