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pete.mason

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1366 on: March 28, 2020, 09:27:01 AM »
From Aditnow wbsite
 "Ragstone mine for building stone. Some dispute that the rock is ragstone this far west, but it is in the same beds as the ragstone extracted around Maidstone further east. Probably 19th century. Six or seven separate series identified. The more northern ones are gated. The other minor ones are sealed.[/size]Level open but grilled as bat hibernaculum"[/color]
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Offline MartinR

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1365 on: March 27, 2020, 10:37:50 PM »
Yes!  Well done Keith.  The settlement is of course Westerham and the stone is Kentish ragstone.  Over to you :)
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KeithG

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« Reply #1364 on: March 27, 2020, 10:06:19 PM »
Are you talking about Hosey Hill old quarry which was at the rear of the village school?
Hosey Caves?
Hosey Common quarry tunnels?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1363 on: March 27, 2020, 06:18:37 PM »
Keep going along the A25.
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KeithG

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1362 on: March 27, 2020, 06:15:26 PM »
Dryhill Quarry?
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Offline MartinR

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1361 on: March 27, 2020, 05:22:18 PM »
The settlement is about 1/2 mile S of the M25, and the actual location of the quarry about a mile S of that.
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KeithG

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« Reply #1360 on: March 27, 2020, 04:59:37 PM »
I think things are getting mixed up here?


What you're after is it North or South of the M25?
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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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KeithG

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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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Offline MartinR

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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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pete.mason

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1356 on: March 27, 2020, 02:51:22 PM »
hearthstone?

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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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« 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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« 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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