Published about 2 years ago by Bernd Kronmueller
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This is one of the old winch houses on the top of a quarry incline. Those huge winches were used to lower a full w...(more)
Published about 2 years ago by Bernd Kronmueller
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The slate that was left over after explosions or the pieces that could just not be used were dumped along the original hil...(more)
Published about 2 years ago by John Leith
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Buckle's To'er.Before the advent of barbed wire, fields had to be enclosed with stone dykes which were time consuming to build. On...(more)
Published about 2 years ago by Calvin Jones
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Antelope springs Trilobite Quarry. A trilobite is a hard-shelled prehistoric marine fossil that can be found in the limestone shale.See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilobite for more information about trilobites.
Published about 2 years ago by Petr Kolčář
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Old white sand pit near from village Hodonovice. Next to is another yellow sand pit.
Published over 2 years ago by Tomasz Makarewicz
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...and here's the side view, this time from the egde of the quarry - much easier to capture. Mountain Quarry is very popular plac...(more)
Published over 2 years ago by Tomasz Makarewicz
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This was by far my most ambitious project. The wall is over 50 meters high - the picture was taken from about 30 meters above the ...(more)
Published over 2 years ago by Tomasz Makarewicz
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This old quarry near Gosnels, Perth Western Australia, is one of numerous options for rock climbing around Perth. More information can be foun...(more)
Published over 2 years ago by Bernd Kronmueller
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Those rows of houses were build so the quarryman could work longer hours because they would not need to get the...(more)
Published over 2 years ago by Bernd Kronmueller
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These are just some slate rubble hills, only about 100m high where they dumped everything they could not use or slate that was broken by t...(more)
