Quarrying - Mining and The Geology of Mumbles
Including LIME KILN OPERATION
Heading: A view from Clements Quarry towards Mumbles Pier, pre 1915
by Ian Prothero
THe Lime kiln on Limekiln Road Oystermouth, 2000
Extracted from ‘Lime Burning on the Gower Peninsula's Limestone Belt,’
by L. A. Toft Industrial Archaeology A.B. Searle, a furnace technologist,
The production of lime is an art which depends, largely on the skill of the lime burner, and most of the statements which imply that lime burning is simple and easy to control are misleading, by those who have little or no knowledge of the subject. The main principles involved are simple and capable of accurate scientific explanation, but the limitations imposed by existing (vertical) kilns are such that there is necessarily much more ‘art’ than ‘science’ employed in producing lime.
Coltshill Quarry Limekiln from Castle Road, Nov 2006
The Coltshill limekiln was a hive of activity and I could just see the red and orange glow from the kiln where the lime came down.
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The hazardous journey down into Ginny's Gut, Langland Cliffs, leads to the forbidden depths of 'Doctor's Mine,' an iron mine, which extended up into the fields off Higher Lane, Thistleboon.
For many years, the main industries in Mumbles were oyster-dredging, farming and quarrying and this article seeks to give a flavour of local life at the cliff face.
An extract from Regency Mumbles
Jessica's Nature Blog - information
A geological fault runs right through the limestone of Mumbles Hill near Swansea. Within this north-south fault, calcite crystals formed. Iron minerals
Mumbles Marble Tomb of Thomas Mansel Talbot, photo: Ronald Austin
... produce Mumbles (and later Swansea, or Cambrian) Marble probably came from the Colts Hill Quarry at Mumbles, although there are references (for example Lewis) 19 to the Mumbles Head area ...
Rather Mumbles Marble is a marble in the commercial sense being a limestone capable of taking a polish to produce an attractive appearance.
.The line had originally been built in 1804 to transport limestone from the quarries of Mumbles to Swansea and thence to the markets beyond, but one ...