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Knowehead Quarry

Quarry (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Knowehead Quarry

Classification Quarry (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Locharbriggs, Quarry

Canmore ID 87942

Site Number NX98SE 71

NGR NX 9876 8136

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Kirkmahoe
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Nithsdale
  • Former County Dumfries-shire

Archaeology Notes

NX98SE 71 9876 8136

(Location cited as NX 987 813). Sandstone quarry, Locharbriggs. Mid 19th century and later. A large red-sandstone quarry, now partly flooded, worked on a small scale, with several derrick-cranes, both wood and steel. There are corrugated-iron saw-sheds, and an interesting plant for making bricks from waste, with a narrow-gauge railway, at NX 986 814.

J R Hume 1976.

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