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quarry, Dufton
locality:-   Dufton Gill Woods
locality:-   Dufton
civil parish:-   Dufton (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   sandstone quarry
locality type:-   quarry
locality type:-   geological site
coordinates:-   NY69192480 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY6924
10Km square:-   NY62


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CAD21.jpg (taken 21.3.2014)  
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CAD22.jpg (taken 21.3.2014)  
The quarries are in St Bees Sandstone. Apart from the massive bedding most of the detail is obscured, either by pick marks of quarry working, or by mosses.


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CAD23.jpg (taken 21.3.2014)  
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CAD24.jpg (taken 21.3.2014)  
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CAD25.jpg (taken 21.3.2014)  
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CAD26.jpg (taken 21.3.2014)  
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CAD27.jpg (taken 21.3.2014)  
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CAD28.jpg (taken 21.3.2014)  
Inevitably, sandstone attracts it, there are graffiti.

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