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Summary

Quarry shown on 19th and early 20th century maps on Lee Ball to the southeast of Lee Ball Cross

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: 1488805
• National Monuments Record: SS 63 NE 30
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS63NE/117

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• QUARRY (Post Medieval to XIX - 1540 AD to 1899 AD (Between))

Full description

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

'Old Quarry' shown on 19th century map on Lee Ball to the southeast of Lee Ball Cross.

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

'Old Quarry' shown on early 20th century map.

Ordnance Survey, 1905, 10NE (Cartographic). SDV335636.

Ordnance Survey, 1963, SS63NE (Cartographic). SDV337343.

'Old Quarry' shown on 1963 map as a long narrow feature running parallel to the fireld boundaries.

National Monuments Record, 2007 - 2009, National Monuments Record Index incorporating Exmoor National Park National Mapping Programme for SS63NE (National Monuments Record Database). SDV343039.

A linear quarry or openwork is visible on aerial photographs as an earthwork south-west of Lee Ball, Challacombe. Part of the feature is depicted on the first edition Ordnance Survey map and annotated "old quarry" suggesting it was abandoned prior to publication in 1889. There is no indication as to what material was extracted here, but the east-west alignment suggests that a mineral seam may have been exploited here. Other details: Monument Number 1488805.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV4547 - Exmoor National Park National Mapping Programme

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