1567 in R. Pitcairn (1833) I. i. 499 Fourteen fals keys..quhilk the deponar..keist in the quarie-hole betwix the abbay and Leith.
1891 G. Neilson 32 Hundreds of quarry-holes, mere surface pitmarks on the hill sides.
1991 R. Jackson in J. Myers v. 109 The poem also refers twice to ‘cellar holes’ and to the quarry hole.