Gravel pits, marl pits and stone quarries were also an early source of freight tonnage as was cement. |
Residents have complained about being awoken in the early hours by empty wagons rumbling through the town on their way to the quarries. |
The second application relates to the granulometric composition of a blasted rock mass in quarries. |
The surviving 17th-century windows are all of wood with quarries of hand-blown glass in lead cames attached to iron saddle-bars. |
Stancliffe Stone wants to re-open the quarries to extract the high-quality sandstone they contain. |
The basalt lava in particular has been, and is still being, extensively quarried for road aggregate in many large quarries on those mountains. |