Marsden, Marsden Old Quarry

HER Number:
2482

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Marsden, Marsden Old Quarry

Place:
Marsden

Map Sheet:
NZ36SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Stone Extraction Site

Site Type: Specific:
Quarry

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Quarry at Marsden. It is unclear from the OS mapping whether this site was an expansion of an earlier one (HER 2404 or 2403), or a completely new one. If new it dated to after 1855. It was served by railway HER 2483. In 2004 during excavation work to strip topsoil from the limestone adjacent to Marsden Old Quarry Local Nature Reserve, to restore magnesian limestone grassland from rank grassland, a series of what looked like boreholes were found covering an area of approximately 10m x 10m. They may be test borings carried out in advance of quarrying activites, they may have had earlier origins or they may be natural.

Easting:
3957

Northing:
6453

Grid Reference:
NZ39576453

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 2482 >> 2nd edition, Ordnance Survey map, 1898, 6 inch scale, Durham, 4, SW; Northern Archaeological Associates, 2015, The Cleadon Village Atlas