This unnamed quarry lay just east of Charterhouse-on-Mendip, one of the most important Roman lead and silver mining centres in Britain, exploited from very shortly after the conquest (lead pigs dated to AD 49 attest activity under Claudius). The quarry would have supplied stone for the associated mining settlement, fortlet, amphitheatre and processing infrastructure, operating through the 1st and into the later Roman period alongside the Mendip orefield workings.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
It formed part of the industrial landscape supporting the imperially controlled lead-silver extraction on the Mendips, providing building stone (likely Carboniferous Limestone or Dolomitic Conglomerate) for one of Britannia's earliest state-run mining complexes. Such quarries are a reminder that Roman extractive industry encompassed bulk stone alongside metal ores.
Little has been formally excavated; the site is known mainly from surface traces and aerial/topographic survey associated with the wider Charterhouse complex mapped by the Barrington Atlas and Mendip surveys. No detailed publication of the quarry itself exists, and its precise extent, dating and worked stone type remain inferred from regional geology and proximity to the settlement.
This unnamed quarry lay just east of Charterhouse-on-Mendip, one of the most important Roman lead and silver mining centres in Britain, exploited from very shortly after the conquest (lead pigs dated to AD 49 attest activity under Claudius). It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a quarry site from the Roman period in Britain.
Untitled is classified as a Roman quarry — a industrial site in the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer. Roman Britain's archaeology encompasses thousands of sites ranging from legionary fortresses and marching camps to villas, temples and towns.
Several Roman sites lie within a short distance, including Untitled (0 km), Untitled (0 km), Untitled (0 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
Aubrey Research generates detailed historical reports for any location in Britain, incorporating Roman heritage, Domesday Book records, scheduled monument data, archaeological finds and much more. Enter a nearby address to begin.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any address in Britain — drawing on Roman heritage, Domesday records, scheduled monument data, archaeological finds and medieval history to reveal the complete story of a landscape.
Research the area around Untitled