Black Mountain Quarry, Herbert's Quarry below Foel Fawr
The quarries on Foel Fawr provided considerable employment for the local area. Also known as Herbert’s Quarry, this is a large area of abandoned limestone quarries in a stunning location on Black Mountain. For centuries, the limestone in this hillside was quarried away and burnt in kilns to produce lime (or calch) for use as an agricultural fertiliser, in the building trade for plaster and mortar, and in many industrial processes such as iron productions. Farmers from both sides of the mountain would travel to the quarries with their horse and cart in the spring to extract and burn the limestone, then transport the quicklime back to their farms to put to good use. Over time the production of lime from the quarries grew and grew, and eventually it was exploited on a commercial scale. The quarry closed and production ceased in the 1950s. A stitched panorama
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