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Offline MartinR

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1359 on: March 27, 2020, 03:24:34 PM »
No, the stone is called "Kentish ...stone".  Further hint: If I started at Sevenoaks and headed west to an ancient settlement with a Saxon name, where would I be?
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« Reply #1358 on: March 27, 2020, 03:16:13 PM »
Don't know type of answer you are looking for but Bargate Stone / Kentish Ragstone was mined on Surrey and Kent border ?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1357 on: March 27, 2020, 03:11:49 PM »
No, try Kentish .....
Recap:South of Chislehurst.  In the area of Fort Halstead.  Clearly an abandoned operation, dug in the mid 19thC.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1356 on: March 27, 2020, 02:51:22 PM »
hearthstone?

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Offline MartinR

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1355 on: March 27, 2020, 01:37:10 PM »
No, you were right previously, it was a tunnel to mine a form of limestone.  Hint: the type of limestone is peculiar to this county.
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1354 on: March 27, 2020, 12:48:08 PM »
Bomb Testing ?
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Offline MartinR

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1353 on: March 27, 2020, 10:04:13 AM »
Now you're getting warmer.  Not quite chalk, but a form of limestone.
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1352 on: March 26, 2020, 11:59:12 PM »
Was it a tunnel to mine chalk or a tunnel for access?
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Offline MartinR

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1351 on: March 26, 2020, 12:37:37 PM »
Not Pollhill tunnel.  The sides of the tunnel have waste from subsequent tunneling deposited in them, you can see it on either side.  The tunnel was never higher than this.  Hint: the tunnels were not used for transport or mineral extraction.  The tunnel shown is early-mid 19thC.
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1350 on: March 26, 2020, 12:17:35 PM »

Polhill Tunnel
Badger's Mount, Kent, UK ?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1349 on: March 26, 2020, 11:39:49 AM »
FHD area, but not the Fort itself.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1348 on: March 26, 2020, 11:36:49 AM »
Anything to do with Fort Halstead area?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1347 on: March 26, 2020, 11:27:49 AM »
Stuart: man-made
John: you're moving away from it.  Go south from Chislehurst.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1346 on: March 26, 2020, 10:26:20 AM »



The chalk mine ,Shepherds Lane Dartford?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1345 on: March 26, 2020, 10:07:50 AM »
Is it a natural cavern or man-made?
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