Brown’s Quarry

The main heading in Brown s Quarry extends for some distance to the north beyond the area occupied by the RAF, and it was suggested that this should be further extended by several hundred yards to a point beneath the surface camp at Rudloe Manor, where a lift shaft would be sunk. Although a little exploratory work was started the scheme was soon abandoned because its cost was calculated to far outweigh the operational benefit. Access to Brown s Quarry is via an electric lift. There is a story (probably apocryphal) that this was requisitioned from Harrods in Knightsbridge when it was found that a new one could not be acquired from the manufacturer at short notice. Unlike all the other surface structures at Corsham, the lift-head building for Brown s Quarry was built... 

Having traced the history of the two smaller factory sites throughout the Cold War era, we can now examine the role of the Corsham Quarries in those unstable times. Most of the underground RSGs were completed by 1962, and at their hean was RAF Rudloe Manor (situated in the now redundant Rotor operations centre in Brown s Quarry) which... 

This small section of the quarry had obviously escaped the attention of the independent consulting engineer Mr Forster Brown, who had been commissioned by the War Office to report on conditions at the mine. There is evidence to suggest that Forster Brown s report was based solely upon his assessment of the relatively easily accessed parts of the mushroom area, and that insufficient evidence was obtained elsewhere. Of the mushroom area he reported that ... 

Locality no. 3 of Osztramos is situated in the southern corner of section XI of the quarry, at 340 m a.s.l. The red clay sediment deposited in a cave formed by a cleft running in a northwest to southeast direction was blasted in 1971 (Picture 7). At the time of palaeontological collections, in 1969 and 1970, the upper part of the profile, 10 m high and 5-6 m wide, was made up of yellowish sediment closed downwards by a calcite shelf, below which reddish brown sediment was found. The material was collected from 9, arbitrarily delimited (20-30 cm wide) strata. Analysis by layers has not been carried out so far (the aim of such study would be to detect differences between the layers). According to Janossy (1969b, 1970), the following faunal list is known, mainly from layers 2 and 3. 

Finally, we succeeded in collecting small-mammal material suitable in all respects for age determination in quarry no. IV of Dunaalmas, a locality to which Schweitzer drew my attention (Pictures 9, 10 and 11). The locality comprises the quarry at the highest point, 280 m a.s.l., of the Almasi Hill, about 2 km south of the village. The patch of freshwater limestone was indicated in Schr ter s (1953) map, with no added comments. As in 1975, the free northwestern profile of the quarry stood at a height of about 10 m, with the lowermost 3 m composed of freshwater limestone, followed by 1 m of reddish-brown sandy and loessy fossil soil, and finally 5-6 m of compact freshwater limestone (Figs. 9 and 10). Washing of about 1 metric ton of the fossil soil... 

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