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Pits Copse Sandstone Quarry (United Kingdom)


Today, this a series of well preserved mounds and hollows, sometimes with very steep slopes. Among the rubble were found four unfinished quern fragments. This site supplied Iron Age and Roman quernstones from late Bronze Age to the Late Roman period, and its heyday was in the 1st century AD.

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Last updated January 13th 2010 by ICLOK
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Last updated January 13th 2010 by ICLOK

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Other location/mapping information:

Latitude: 51.0044
Longitude: -0.68873
Landranger grid reference: SU921236
Easting: 492100
Northing: 123600

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Pits Copse Sandstone Quarry belongs to the East Sussex region.