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14th Sep 2024  11:05  by Earby Rambler

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Damaged  Score: 6/10

Visited whilst on day out with Painterman61, Block & flattened Rod easily found. (Great find CJO and Bagging Assistant)

Site
Block & Rod
Damaged Rod
Nearby CBM on Railway Bridge

14th Sep 2024  11:05  by painterman61

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

Easy find had to dodge the farmer who was ploughing the next field. Super location in the old quarry great find cjo and assistant.

Site ©painterman61
Size ©painterman61
Flatt rodney ©painterman61
Old quarry ©painterman61

24th Aug 2024  11:55  by ted

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Approached from Shildon following a cycle trail alongside the railway, with passengers on a steam train going nowhere. Then straightforward access to the trig site via a grass track from NW. Easy to spot where CJO had cut a square of turf between the hedge and quarry edge. Block not too deeply buried this time. Remains of rod marker. The OSGB36 list doesn't flag the trig as destroyed but would guess that the mark was deliberately hammered flat by OS to indicate that it should no longer be used. The abandoned quarry looked interesting.

Middridge Quarry trig
Middridge Quarry trig
Middridge Quarry trig
Middridge Quarry trig

10th Aug 2024  13:03  by CJO

Gridref: NZ 25496 24663   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

Largish oblong concrete block 6 inch deep in iron-hard ground. Block has a streak of copper/brass in the middle that looked like a pebble but was in fact a chopped bolt or bent over rod. Clearly brass when scraped. 3.3 m east of sign (diagonal from sign to ground) in gap in hedge which we placed a brick beneath. 2.95m from quarry edge. 6.35 NW of hawthorn on quarry edge. See photos.

Large oblong block
with bent over brass rid
Brass when scraped. With what looks to be a stamped triangle.
Block in relation to hedge/fence with sign and brick beneath
Detail of fence, hedge and brick markers
Edge of quarry to left and hawthorne bush in background
As left - with small rock sticking out of ground as marker (all we could find)

29th Jun 2020  18:04  by ger

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Couldn't find it  Score: 8/10

No sign of block, however a nice location - quarry is full of interest - pity its a bit 'tresspassy'.

Block is somewhere above this quarry wall.
Block should be somewhere about here. ©ger
View from near where block should be. ©ger

24th Aug 2017  12:01  by Ant1974

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Unknown  Score: 5/10