Description and History of Site:-
A series of discontinuous stone workings working Millstone Grit strata showing as delphs cut into the hillside just below the plateau at an altitude of c. 610-620m, with the occasional crude stone worker's shelter and abandoned part-shaped stone items such as millstone roughouts and dimension stone roughouts, eg probable gate stoups. The best millstone roughout, with a diameter of 1.5m, thickness of 350mm and a central hole with a diameter of 200mm, lies on chock stones at SD8395 7511.

The main elements of the workings have been entered in the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority's HER as MYD 66620-66628. no archival evidence of these workings has been found

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Key Words :- dimension stone millstones millstone grit

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Address :- Horton in Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire
Grid Ref :- SD 838 746
Co-ordinates :- Lat 54.166940 , Long -2.249624
Local Authority :- Craven District Council
Pre 1974 County :- Yorkshire - West Riding
Site Status :- Site extant - Protected status unknown
Site Condition :- Site disused - but otherwise substantially intact
Site Dates :- unknown - unknown
Record Date :- 4 March 2016

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