Monument record 0503601000 - GALE'S FARM,IVINGHOE

Summary

Nineteenth century record of coprolite quarrying

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Type and Period (1)

  • QUARRY (19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

IN 1870 LORD BROWNLOW LEASED 10 ACRES ON MR GALE'S FARM TO JOSEPH LEE & JOSEPH PRICE OF LEICESTER TO DIG COPROLITES & SET UP A WASH MILL TO CLEAN THE FOSSILS BY THE STREAM. THE WORKINGS WERE ALSO USED FOR BRICKMAKING, USING CLAY BENEATH THE FOSSIL BED. LEE & PRICE STAYED ON IN THE BRICK TRADE (B5-6).
'Coprolite-pits (formerly worked). A quarter-mile south-east of [Cheddington] railway station. A brickyard since ?1874 (B8).

Sources (3)

  • <5>SBC9994 Article in serial: Bernard O'Connor. 1990. 'THE COPROLITE INDUSTRY IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE', IN RECS OF BUCKS 32 pp76-90. Vol 32.
  • <6>SBC9995 Article in serial: B O'Connor. 1990. 'THE HISTORY OF THE COPROLITE INDUSTRY IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE', IN DUNSTABLE MUSEUM JOURNAL.
  • <8>SBC23999 Bibliographic reference: W Whitaker. 1921. The Water Supply of Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire from Underground Sources: Memoirs of Geological Survey. p128.

Location

Grid reference Centred SP 9283 1819 (310m by 300m)
Civil Parish IVINGHOE, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Aug 19 2011 5:26PM

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