Tucked into the overgrowth, this is the slope shaft entrance to Sands Quarry, where Bath stone was extracted between 1890 and 1912. Unlike neighbouring mines, this site was largely undisturbed after its wartime requisition by the Ministry of Defence during the Second World War. The shaft remains much as it was when work ceased, now sealed by fencing but still bearing witness to its industrial past—nature quietly reclaiming the remnants of human endeavour.
