North Queensferry, Battery Quarry
Quarry (Period Unassigned)
Site Name North Queensferry, Battery Quarry
Classification Quarry (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Forth Rail Bridge; Carlingnose Point
Canmore ID 279516
Site Number NT18SW 346
NGR NT 13373 80302
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/279516
- Council Fife
- Parish Inverkeithing
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Dunfermline
- Former County Fife
NT18SW 346 13373 80302
Battery Quarry (Disused)
Pond [NAT]
OS 1:2500 map, 1966.
For Deep Sea World (marine visitor centre and aquarium) within N side of quarry, see NT18SW 347.
This quarry is locally said to have provided stone for the construction of the Forth Rail Bridge (NT17NW 70), which over-arches it. It is now flooded, and the Deep Sea World aquarium (NT18SW 347) has been built within it.
The Forth Railway Bridge (NT17NW 70) extends from NT 1390 7790 to 1315 8082.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 March 2006.