Curlew Hope Quarry

HER Number

7846

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Curlew Hope Quarry

Place

Great Eppleton

Map Sheet

NZ34NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Mineral Extraction Site

Site Type: Specific

Quarry

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

This quarry appears on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map of 1897. IT contained a small gunpowder store, the only permanent structure. The quarry had closed by 1920 but is still visible.

Easting

436420

Northing

548470

Grid Reference

NZ436420548470

Sources

The Archaeological Practice, 1999, Eppleton Reclamation Scheme: Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Assessment, p.22 & Fig. 2. Unpublished report for Hall Construction Services Ltd. (T&W HER 1999, Box 21A/2)