Monument record MDO19530 - Freshwater Quarries, Portland

Small overgrown quarry remnant with waste tips and levelled top backfilling quarry. Adjacent to Sheat Quarries. No significant interest. A small quarry (part of ‘Freshwater Quarries’?) was extended in the mid C20. The quarry is visible on aerial photographs of the 1940s.

Small overgrown quarry remnant with waste tips and levelled top backfilling quarry. Adjacent to Sheat Quarries. No significant interest. A small quarry (part of ‘Freshwater Quarries’?) was extended in the mid C20. (1)

A small quarry, Freshwater Quarries, described above in (1) is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of the 1940s to the north of Sheat Quarries. The quarry is visible over an area measuring approximately 26 m by 31 m. (2) The site is still visible on the most recent comprehensive aerial imagery available to the project. (3) A second quarry is located immediately to the east (see MWX4391). This site was digitally plotted during the South West Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (Dorset).

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1960, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map (Map). SDO10272.

<2> Royal Air Force, 13-APR-1946, RAF 106G/UK/1411 4051-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13031.

<3> XX-XXX-2009, Google Earth (Aerial Photograph). SDO12705.

Record last edited

Sep 6 2024 4:32PM