Pitmedden House Policies
Pond (Period Unassigned), Quarry (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Pitmedden House Policies
Classification Pond (Period Unassigned), Quarry (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Pitmedden House, North Mains
Canmore ID 219665
Site Number NJ82NE 81
NGR NJ 88121 28122
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/219665
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Udny
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ82NE 81 8812 2812
For Pitmedden House (NJ 8844 2805) and associated buildings and field monuments, see NJ82NE 33.00.
This disused and flooded quarry is situated within a coniferous plantation some 300m WNW of Pitmedden House (NJ82NE 33.00). The quarry, which is depicted flooded on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire 1870, sheet xlvi), was probably the source of the limestone that was processed in the adjacent limekiln (NJ82NE 33.02).
Visited by RCAHMS (ATW, JRS), 28 January 1997.
Field Visit (January 2005 - December 2005)
Flooded quarry in Limekiln wood on W side of main road; enclosed by trees and overlooked by the limekiln, steep quarry face on S, shallow and silted on W, deeper on E with outflow either side of small island.
Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey c.1866 with a small island in a eastern arm (similar to present); shown without island etc with a simpler outline on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey and subsequent maps. “At Pitmedden there is a limestone quarry, which was formerly wrought, but now discontinued, on account of water breaking in upon it.” (OSA 1794, v4, 146-57) The Limekiln wood area is assumed to have been laid out as a picturesque feature in the early 19th century.
PIT06 W025
Information from NTS (SCS) December 2013
