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:
Dike, circles and cairns on Bleaberry HawsTwo rifle ranges on Silver HowMickleden Beck prehistoric cairnfield and field system, funerary cairn and a medieval dispersed settlement centred 840m south west of Pike of StickleCastle Howe hillfort, Little LangdaleCairns and enclosure on The Rigg, BanisheadMoot mound at Fell Foot Farm, Little LangdaleCairns on Foul ScrowRoman road in Wrynose BottomRound cairn, 460m south west of Thompson GroundRifle 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 PlaceYewdale lime kiln 380m south west of Low YewdaleConiston copper minesRoman road up Wrynose PassGreenburn copper mines and associated ore processing worksSeven Intakes medieval dispersed settlement 210m south west of Fell FootTwo bloomeries, 340m and 570m NNE of Hoathwaite Landing on Coniston WaterLong Intakes medieval dispersed settlement and associated kiln 370m south of Fell Foot.
