EDO5929 - Burngate Pearce's Quarry, Langton Matravers; historical analysis and survey 2006

Rapid assessment of existing quarry and agricultural features prior to the development of the site as a stonework training centre. The quarry was opened between 1841 and 1887 and comprised a single mine shaft with a group of five buildings surrounding an open space. It went out of use some time before 1928, and was subsequently adapted for agricultural use. Parts of three stone buildings were found to survive on the site, of a crude construction regarded as typical of quarr buildings of the late 19th century. A number of stones with wedge-pits and other marks of former quarry working methods were noted. A number of buildings around the head of the shaft and the capstan are no longer extant, so it is far from a complete example of a Purbeck quarr.