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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
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/87942
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkmahoe
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Nithsdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
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.
