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Monument details

Summary

Bowmans former sand and gravel quarry located directly east of Wansunts Pit (TQ 57 SW 237). Linked via a tunnel passing under Station Road (now completely buried), the quarry was a relatively late extension to Wansunts Pit and was not active until the second quarter of the C20. It was latterly used as a waste landfill, and now has been completely backfilled and lies redundant, covered with scrub. Sections of the quarry edge are still partially visible along northern boundary adjacent to Bowmans Road. A palaeololithic working site was discoverd in the pit ( TQ 57 SW 16).

Monument Types

• QUARRY (Abandoned, Modern - 1915 AD? to 1964 AD? (at some time))

Full description

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Bowmans former sand and gravel quarry located directly east of Wansunts Pit (TQ 57 SW 237). Linked via a tunnel passing under Station Road ( now completely buried), the quarry was a relatively late extension to Wansunts Pit and was not active until the second quarter of the C20. It was latterly used as a waste landfill, and now has been completely backfilled and lies redundant, covered with scrub. Sections of the quarry edge are still partially visible along northern boundary adjacent to Bowmans Road. A palaeololithic working site was discoverd in the pit ( TQ 57 SW 16).(1)

<1> Essex County Council, 2003, Aggregates Levy Survey Industrial Sites, KN 729 & 731 (Unpublished document). SKE12009.

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