3 | |
Boulder features | |
54500 | |
South Ayrshire |
A46. Two arcs of boulders exist creating an approximately oval shape 10 m wide. The boulders are up to 1 m in size and may be dressed/quarried. This is, however, difficult to ascertain as they are limpet covered and the natural rock fractures in a regular fashion. ShoreUPDATE 06-10-15: In this location is the remains of a perfectly circular stone structure, with an external diameter of 4.3m and internal diameter of 3.1m. It is constructed with squared blocks of dense dark grey (igneous?) rock, bonded with shelly lime mortar. It survives to a height of one course, although there is evidence in the quantities of tumbled blocks which surround an fill the structure that it would have stood higher - probably until recently. Local information supported by documentary and map evidence suggest this is the remains of a ventilation shaft associated with a nearby coal mine. Bell-Rock Pit is marked on an 1816 plan of Prestwick very near to this site. Map evidence shows that this stretch of coastline has /is suffering from quite dramatic erosion, still evident today. This feature would have originally been located in the dunes. Dressed and carved stone is present across the foreshore in this area. Some of this may originate from the structure. Some from the former sandstone quarry behind the coast edge. |
234069.00 | |
624535.00 | |
27700 | |
55.4863739 | |
-4.6276116 |
Image | Date | Caption | User |
---|---|---|---|
15/04/2023 | Detail of double ashlar construction | joannahambly | |
15/04/2023 | Shafts looking north | joannahambly | |
15/04/2023 | Shaft looking east towards sea bank | joannahambly | |
15/04/2023 | Pair of shafts, looking north | joannahambly | |
04/05/2023 | General view taken from coastal bank looking west | calanaisczas | |
04/05/2023 | Ventilation shaft and arc of stone of the second to the south taken from bank, looking west | calanaisczas | |
06/10/2015 | 'Plan of part of the lands of Prestwick belonging to the Freeholders, 1814'. showing location of Bell-Rock pit and ruins of Bell Rock pans | training1 | |
06/10/2015 | E.g. of perforated sandstone block in the vicinity of the structure | training1 | |
06/10/2015 | E.g. of dressed stone block in the vicinity of the structure | training1 | |
06/10/2015 | Looking S towards Ayre | training1 | |
06/10/2015 | Looking N | training1 | |
06/10/2015 | Closer view looking NW | training1 | |
06/10/2015 | Looking SE. Sewer and base of rock armoured coast edge in background. | training1 | |
06/10/2015 | Looking NW towards Bell Rock | training1 | |
Update id | Date | User | ||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
4492 | 04/05/2023 | calanaisczas | ||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
2237 | 06/10/2015 | training1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
|