An intertidal millstone quarry is located on the rock platform between Lagmuck Sands and Glenstocken Sands. The Lower Carboniferous conglomerate sandstone was quarried between the late 18th and late 19th centuries for millstone. Extraction pits and roughouts of unfinished millstones can be found across the rock platform.
Location
285874.00
552481.00
27700
54.8540688
-3.7792199
Submitted photographs
Image
Date
Caption
User
04/09/2013
Possible extraction pit
training1
04/09/2013
Detail of millstone rough out
training1
04/09/2013
General view of rock platform with unfinished millstones in foreground and middle of image
training1
Submitted updates
Update id
Date
User
1282
04/09/2013
RuthMagz
Tidal state
Low
Site located?
Yes
Visibility above ground
Limited visibility (partial remains)
Access
accessible - difficult terrain
Local knowledge
don't know
Description
An intertidal millstone quarry is located on the rock platform between Lagmuck Sands and Glenstocken Sands. The Lower Carboniferous conglomerate sandstone was quarried between the late 18th and late 19th centuries for millstone. Extraction pits and roughouts of unfinished millstones can be found across the rock platform.
Systematic survey and recording of quarrying remains. Priority 3.
Comments
Background information researched by John Picken and available on the following website http://meuliere.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/php/results2.php