Trow Rocks Quarry

HER Number

2390

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Trow Rocks Quarry

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Mineral Extraction Site

Site Type: Specific

Limestone Quarry

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

A Limestone Quarry, on the south side of the Bents, near Trow Point. The 2nd edition Ordnance which was used to provide stone for the South Pier and South Groyne (HER refs. 2428 & 2429). A railway (HER ref. 2433) linked the quarry to these sites.

Easting

438350

Northing

566510

Grid Reference

NZ438350566510

Sources

<< HER 2390 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 4; Archaeological Research Services, 2010, Phase 2 North East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment, Project Record Number 700