Lambshouse and Gull Point Quarry
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Lambshouse and Gull Point Quarries are two disused slate quarries between Tintagel and Trebarwith at Lambshouse Cove on the north coast of Cornwall, South West England. The quarries were latterly worked jointly as one site and were abandoned by the turn of the 20th century. It is likely that Lambshouse Quarry originated at the cliffs at the north of the cove while Gull Point was to the south.
The quarry site cuts a deep "D" shape into the cliffs immediately due south of the Tintagel youth hostel building and is known as Lambshouse Cove. The near vertical cliffs around the cove are almost entirely artificial and the workings of drills can be seen in the rock wall.[1] The quarries are just south of Long Grass Quarry and just north of Dria Quarry.
Stone
The quarry provided a source of Upper Devonian slate and Lower Carboniferous slates of a greyish green colour used predominantly for roofing. A "box cave" at sea level produced a darker green slate considered to be of higher quality.
