Monument record TQ 75 SE 135 - Boughton Monchelsea Ragstone Quarry

Ragstone quarry, date unknown, surveyed as part of the MPP Quarry programme. Graded, it is difficult to see, as of national importance (lesser importance).(1)

Ragstone quarries worked from the Mediaeval period until the 20th century. The quarries are now occupied by houses, and most of the working caes are now in private gardens. A deep oval pit at the West end has a malthouse in the base. A building of chalk clunch construction may have been an office or used for stone dressing. There were formerly limekilns in the quarry. (2)

<1> Lancaster University Archaeological Unit, 1999, MPP Quarrying Industry Step 3 (Revised) Introduction to site assessments (Unpublished document). SKE8243.

<2> English Heritage, 1995-2000, English Heritage Monuments Protection Programme Industrial Monuments Assessment, Step 3 Reports (Unpublished document). SKE58707.