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Firs Quarry - Quarry Bottom (West)

Combe Down, Bath.

NGR:	ST 75885 62410
WGS84:	51.36024, -2.34773
Length:	Not recorded
Depth:	Not recorded
Altitude:	162 m
Tags:	Mine
Registry:	wbc

Quarry Bottom has two entrances side by side. This was the smaller of the two entrances from the surface quarry, Jones Quarry, underground.

The entrance was blocked by a 2.8 m stone wall, probably in the mid 19th century.

Alternative Names: Combe Down Quarries, Combe Down Quarry, Firs Quarry, Firs Mine, Ivy House Exit

Links and Resources:

Willies, L.M., Redvers-Higgins, N. and Ianto Wain (2011). 'Finished labour of a thousand hands' : the archaeology of the Combe Down Stone Mines, Bath, Somerset. Oxford: Oxford Archaeology.
https://https://eprints.oxfordarchaeology.com/765/
Addison, Peter, 1998, Around Combe Down, Bath: Millstream Books

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