Scottish quarries database

Information from the Scottish quarries database has now been incorporated into the BritPits (British Pits) database Contains the site and rock type information of working and disused hard rock quarries in Scotland, covering all mainland Scotland and major Scottish islands. Database was initiated in the spring of 1997. Various stages of completeness in the dataset according to information received, quarries not documented will not be recorded. Quarry site data is given as point data (centre 2D XY data), at the point there is a quarry, areal extent is not recorded.