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Summary

A quarry of probable 19th century date is depicted on 19th to 20th century maps and is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of the 1940s, immediately to the south-west of Weeke Cross. The quarry is not identifiable as an earthwork on visualisations derived from lidar data captured in 2019 and has probably been levelled.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX65SE/86

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• QUARRY (XVIII to XIX - 1800 AD to 1880 AD (Between))

Full description

1969, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV156376.

'old quarry' indicated on os 6" (1906). Nothing shown on os 6" (1969) (os).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV156377.

Des=os 6"(1906)sheet 125se.

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

The visible earthworks correspond with a pit depicted on the Ordnance Survey 1880s First Edition 25inch map.

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.

The visible earthworks correspond with a pit depicted on the Ordnance Survey 1880s Second Edition 25inch map, annotated as Old Quarry

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1890, Devon County Council RAF/CPE/UK/1890 FS 2193-2194 10-DEC-1946 (Aerial Photograph). SDV169268.

Environment Agency, 2019, National Lidar Programme, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM 25-FEB-2019 (Cartographic). SDV363691.

Hegarty, C., Knight, S. and Sims, R., 2019-2020, The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping Survey. Area 2, Avon Valley to Plymouth (AI&M, formerly NMP) (Interpretation). SDV362982.

An irregularly shaped pit circa 14m wide and up to 52m long is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of 1946, immediately to the south-west of Weeke Cross.
The visible earthwork corresponds closely with a quarry depicted on the Ordnance Survey 1880s 25inch First Edition map. The quarry is annotated as ‘Old Quarry’ on the Ordnance Survey 1880s 25inch First Edition map, supporting the interpretation that it had ceased to be worked between circa 1880 and 1906.
This small quarry probably cuts the remains of an earlier, larger quarry recorded as MDV128461.
The quarry is not clearly identifiable as an earthwork on visualisations derived from lidar data captured in 2019 and has probably been levelled.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8098 - The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping (formerly NMP) Survey, Area 2, Avon Valley to Plymouth (Ref: ACD2040)

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