Building record MAB15643 - TILLYFOURIE QUARRY

Remains of a quarry, depicted on the OS 2nd edition and later maps The 2nd edition shows the main quarry with smithy, another long building, crane and track or tramways.

Remains of a quarry, depicted on the OS 2nd edition and later maps The 2nd edition shows the main quarry with smithy, another long building, crane and track or tramways. The quarry was linked by long narrow gauge incline (now a track) to a siding on the Alford Valley Railway to the south. Two buildings and a crane stand alongside the siding. The quarry was opened in the late 19th century succeeding older smaller scale workings lower down on the hill (NJ61SW0139). According to a description of 1888 the incline was worked by gravity. Site visit 2014 noted that the quarry is deep and flooded. Two probable crane bases survive, as does a tall brick chimney, standing on a square granite plinth at the top of the incline with a platform that was probably for a boiler. The 1888 description records that steam was supplied to three cranes from boilers at a distance. A retaining wall behind may be the remains of the smithy. Some of the once large waste tips have been removed relatively recently.

STANIER, P, 2014, ABERDEENSHIRE QUARRIES: EXTRACTING KNOWLEDGE REPORT ON THE FINDINGS (Bibliographic reference). SAB1754.

Dec 15 2014 , AAS-GR-14-12-001 - 006, AAS-GR-14-12-001 - 006 (Ground Photograph). SAB20800.

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Jun 4 2020 12:05PM