Monument record 2533/1/5 - Possible Post Medieval Quarry Pits (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Earthwork: Unconfirmed overlay

{3} In the Weldon Stone Company's Quarry just east of Longhills Pit, the upper part of the Upper Lincolnshire Limestone is exposed. More details of strata given. At the present time the only operating quarries are those of the Weldon Stone Company (c.500m WSW of Great Weldon Church). Plate VI(b) (opp p.134). At the south-western corner of the pit a 17ft bed of oolitic freestone is being worked. To the north-east this is split into two lifts by the incoming of a 1ft 3in lens of the oyster limestone known as Weldon Rag.

{4} Weldon Stone Quarry marked on map in 1967.

<1> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, Used with NMR & CUCAP collections (Photographs). SNN104822.

<2> Tonks E., 1992, The Ironstone Quarries of The Midlands (History, Operation and Railways): The Corby Area, p.172 (unchecked) (Book). SNN39836.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1967, 1950s/60s Ordnance Survey 6 Inch Mapping Series (SP98NW), (part checked) (Map). SNN34173.

Record last edited

Aug 11 2010 10:50AM