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Description and History of Site:-
It consists of an extensive area which has been surface-worked rather than quarried. Visible today are discard piles, stacks of rough-worked stone ready for dispatch, at least one dressing floor, a complete stone-getters' roofed shelter, and slight evidence of a trackway or sledway off the moor connecting to the west end of a walled trackway formerly called Widderon Gait, which branches off the Occupation Road. Nothing has been found of its history but this type of stone getting is known on Ingleborough from the mid 16th century. It is certainly early and has all the signs of everything having been done by hand.


Further Reading and References:-
Johnson, D. Quarrying in the Yorkshire Pennines. Amberley, 2016, p. 14.


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Key Words :- stone workings gritstone

Viewing the Site :- Open Access land under the CRoW Act 2000

Address :- Gawthrop, Dent, Cumbria, LA10 5QB
Grid Ref :- SD 685 847
Co-ordinates :- Lat 54.256995 , Long -2.485023
Local Authority :- South Lakeland District Council
Pre 1974 County :- Yorkshire - West Riding
Site Status :- Site extant - Protected status unknown
Site Condition :- Operational site, in use for original purpose
Site Dates :- unknown - unknown
Record Date :- 8 February 2017

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