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Firs Quarry Shaft B1

Combe Down, Bath.

NGR:	ST 75875 62479
WGS84:	51.36086, -2.34788
Length:	Not recorded
Depth:	7 m
Altitude:	164 m
Tags:	Mine, Shaft, Lost
Registry:	wbc

This is a substancial capped shaft approximately 3.1m in diameter. It was used to extract Bath Stone to the surface. There is 4.5m of bedrock from the ceiling to the base of the capping.

The shaft is now lost under Firs Field.

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: The shaft was probably associated with two major cartways underground and may have serviced three separate quarry areas.

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://eprints.oxfordarchaeology.com/765/
https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-1142-1/dissemination/pdf/CODOM01_Monkton_Combe_Combe_Down_Mines_A1b.pdf

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This entry was last updated: 2026-03-10 11:27:52

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