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Caterpillar
Heading back down
we followed this fence back down from the first set of Quarries we visited
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Slate hut
Nature takes back over inside this little hut - they've used a narrow grade railway rail for the beam across the top of the roof
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Tunnel back down
There were lots of these tunnels leading all sorts of directions, but mostly leading back down the hill - this one was the only one we got inside
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Stone Walls
these were once part of the quarry complex- housing offices, equipment, or even homes. All that's left now are these walls.
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Wheel/Motor house
Planted at the top of a shallow incline - this building would have housed pulleys used to haul rock and supplies up and down the slope
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Level
This was a level cut through the rock to allow easier access to the working sides of the quarry
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Causway
This causeway was shored up by these hand-placed slabs of slate - it's maybe 30m high
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Sheep
Quarry complex
these ruins are all that's left of what looked to be a fairly substantial complex to service the quarries
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Abandoned hut
Tunnel
The interesting thing here is that the lake is overflowing into this tunnel and then just disappearing into the rocks, at quite a rate too.
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