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High Crag quarry

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AA4_10_08 Photo from the W end of Halton High Crag looking approx ESE across one of the small quarries on High Crag, Low Crag on the opposite side of Barden Road in the direction of Bolton Abbey 4.25km distant
Bolton Station Quarry from Halton

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AA4_10_44 Photograph showing the former Hambleton Quarry, NGR SE05785335, W of Bolton Abbey Railway Station. (Quarry is in the Pendleside Limestone formation, a sedimentary bedrock formed between 343 and 330.9 Mya during the Lower Carboniferous period (Holkerian/Asbian))
Storiths: quarried hills i

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AA4_10_45 From Storiths Lane, Storiths, on SW side of Storiths Crag, looking approx W from around NGR SE08235427 looking towards Bank Farm and the two hillocks with old quarries into a sandstone bed of Pendlian age in the Upper Carboniferous Millstone Grit Group (Namurian) formed between 329 and 328Mya
Storiths: quarried hills ii

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AA4_10_46 Photograph taken in Storiths from NGR SE08165431 looking approx. N (Crag Cottage at far right) and showing old quarrying into a sandstone bed of Pendlian age in the Upper Carboniferous Millstone Grit Group (Namurian) formed between 329 and 328Mya
High Halton Crag 'Lower Quarry'

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AA4_10_14 High Halton Crag ‘Lower Quarry’. (Quarry not positively identified but possibly the quarry at NGR SE03365524)
High Halton Crag C17 quarry

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AA4_10_15 High Halton Crag C17 quarry (location of quarry not identified)
From Halton High Crag: road to C19 quarries

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AA4_10_17 From Halton High Crag. (The road in the image is Barden Road before it turns N to the junction with Moor Lane. The C19 quarries referred to on the slide title have not been identified)
Tooling marks showing use of plugs and feathers to split rock

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AA4_10_16 High Halton Quarry Crag ‘Lower Quarry’. Tooling marks showing use of plugs and feathers to split rock
'Dog-holes' cut into rock to facilitate lifting for moving and transportation

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AA4_10_18 High Halton Crag. ‘Dog-holes’ cut into rock to facilitate lifting for moving and transportation
Halton Low Crag v

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AA4_10_27 Halton Low Crag
Halton Low Crag: quarrying activity ii

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AA4_10_31 Halton Low Crag: quarrying activity at unidentified location
Halton Low Crag: quarrying activity i

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AA4_10_30 Halton Low Crag: quarrying activity at unidentified location
Track below Halton Low Crag

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AA4_10_36 Old track below east end of Halton Low Crag, possibly a sled way
Wedge marks, Hare Head, Bolton Abbey

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AA4_10_40 Rock split with wedges at unidentified location on Hare Head NW of Bolton Abbey

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