Langdale and Elterwater were centres of the Lakeland slate industry and Elterwater is still a working quarry.
Usually, the one thing an architect can rely on is solid ground, but since it was still a working quarry there was a lot of movement.
The team has welcomed archaeologists from all over the world, but public access to a site yards from the giant crater of the working quarry – which probably swallowed the other half of the settlement – is regarded as impossible, and the excavation will be reburied to preserve any underlying archaeology.
Moore excavated thousands of marine and insect fossils, mainly from Strawberry Bank, a working quarry near Ilminster, as well as from sites around the South West.
The camp was built around a working quarry, and prisoners were compelled to carry loads of stones [End Page 146] up the 186 steps that led from the base of the quarry to the surface.
Where else would you find a bear's cage, alligator pool, Japanese garden, windmill, greenhouses full of flowers, grottoes, acres of gardens, deer paddock, Indian statue, working quarry, cannons, and Greco-Roman swimming pool?
Matt's grandfather Tomas Ortega left a subsistence existence in Mexico as a 13-year-old in the 1920s, hopping a train to Texas, working in quarries around Chicago and traveling to Pennsylvania to work for Bethlehem Steel.
Elgio Zorzi, 87, who started working in quarries as a teenager, who later founded Adams Granite in Montpelier and who retired in 1985, no longer recognizes the industry, both for its mechanization and for its international reach.
The need for a cooperation agreement between the two countries was highlighted in September 2003 when about 300 Beninese children were discovered working in quarries in Abeokuta in Nigeria.
