Skye, Kilchrist Upper Quarry
Machinery Plinth(S) (19th Century) - (20th Century), Marble Quarry (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Skye, Kilchrist Upper Quarry
Classification Machinery Plinth(S) (19th Century) - (20th Century), Marble Quarry (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Kilbride Quarries; Strath Suardal
Canmore ID 74724
Site Number NG61NW 7
NGR NG 6185 1979
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/74724
- Council Highland
- Parish Strath
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG61NW 7.00 6185 1979
For associated magazine (at NG 6209 1972), see NG61NW 7.01.
Sited at the SE end of a spoil heap at the old marble quarry, are two machinery stands:
1. 2m square with 11 bolts protruding
2. 6.5m by 5.2m with 4 stanchions protruding.
Visited by J S Wood, 4 April 1990.
This quarry apparently formed part of the Kilchrist industrial complex (NG62SW 55.00) and was connected to the lower quarry (NG62SW 55.01) by a 'rope-worked incline, of which the bed of the horizontal winding drum can still be seen'. (MS/716/4).
Information from Dr R Miket (Skye and Lochalsh District Council), September 1993.
