
What is recorded here
No visible marker exists for the Turvey burial because the grave is hidden inside an ordinary abandoned quarry. That is why the place still feels incomplete. The dead person may have been forgotten quickly when the land stopped belonging to one household and became useful for gravel, cattle or tax purposes. Remembering the site now requires imagining what was lost before the quarry became a quarry.
In 1984 human remains were discovered on Turvey Estate. The human remains were discovered in a disused gravel quarry which had been converted to a cattle shelter (NMI Cahill & Sikora 2011, 474).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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