Having heard this had been pumped full of Foam-crete a few years back we never bothered checking it out.. Most of the mines and quarries in the Combe Down part of Bath have either collapsed or been Foam-creted due to the flakey nature of the sub strata. As part of the Monkton Prep School and its playing field sits directly on top of the Quarries, Foam-crete was used to stabilize the land.
I'm not sure whether the bat monitoring equipment belongs to the college or English Nature but a substantial sum has been spent building the access shaft and ladders and installing an incubator and monitoring station. Both Grey Gables & Mount Pleasant quarries play host all the major species of bats that inhabit the locale, during our short (4hrs) visit we spotted greater & lesser horseshoe bats, but the four Myotis species - Whiskered, Brandt's, Natterer's and Daubenton's bats are also rumoured to visit. Perhaps this is why all the expense?
I believe the steel and concrete tunnel is the divide betwix the two quarries, the latter half of the pics being Grey Gables.
Visited with Herr Petzl by recommendation of Mrbodymassagemachinesqueezeyourplumz
I'm not sure whether the bat monitoring equipment belongs to the college or English Nature but a substantial sum has been spent building the access shaft and ladders and installing an incubator and monitoring station. Both Grey Gables & Mount Pleasant quarries play host all the major species of bats that inhabit the locale, during our short (4hrs) visit we spotted greater & lesser horseshoe bats, but the four Myotis species - Whiskered, Brandt's, Natterer's and Daubenton's bats are also rumoured to visit. Perhaps this is why all the expense?
I believe the steel and concrete tunnel is the divide betwix the two quarries, the latter half of the pics being Grey Gables.
Visited with Herr Petzl by recommendation of Mrbodymassagemachinesqueezeyourplumz
