Horse Crag Quarry by munki-boy
Horse Crag Quarry
Horse Crag Quarry is in The Lake District National Park in England.
Horse Crag Quarry is an old slate quarry up with underground workings on the Tilberthwaite Deep Adit Level.
The ruins of the smithy and site office of Penny Rigg Mill stand at the entrance to the quarry with a few iron remains of machines and an old compressed air hose leading into the underground closehead.
The closehead or underground slate quarry not too far inside the adit here was worked later by John W. Shaw and with machine drilled shotholes using compressed air from the hose still in-situ. Shotholes in the deep level adit are found to have been hand-drilled.
Created: 5 January 2020 Edited: 29 November 2023
Horse Crag Quarry
Horse Crag Quarry LiDAR Map
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Local History around Horse Crag Quarry
There are some historic monuments around including:
Coniston copper minesRoman road up Wrynose PassTwo bloomeries, 340m and 570m NNE of Hoathwaite Landing on Coniston WaterMickleden Beck prehistoric cairnfield and field system, funerary cairn and a medieval dispersed settlement centred 840m south west of Pike of StickleMoot mound at Fell Foot Farm, Little LangdaleYewdale lime kiln 380m south west of Low YewdaleRound cairn, 460m south west of Thompson GroundRoman road in Wrynose BottomCastle Howe hillfort, Little LangdaleSeven Intakes medieval dispersed settlement 210m south west of Fell FootRifle Range target and Marker's Hut, 150m north west of Blea MossThe Langdale Boulders, two prehistoric rock art sites in Great Langdale 250m south of Harry PlaceLong Intakes medieval dispersed settlement and associated kiln 370m south of Fell FootDike, circles and cairns on Bleaberry HawsCairns and enclosure on The Rigg, BanisheadTwo rifle ranges on Silver HowGreenburn copper mines and associated ore processing worksCairns on Foul Scrow.
