Dunwich Borers

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Setting	Fallout (Interplay / Bethesda Game Studios / Obsidian Entertainment)
Location	In the Commonwealth, the ruined Boston region of Fallout 4.
Type	Marble quarry with deep underground workings
Worked	Worked before the Great War of 2077 – Abandoned at the Great War; picked over for scrap some two hundred years later
Extent	An open quarry pit with a lift and station buildings, leading into tunnels and a vast vertical chamber, work stations 1 to 6, and at the bottom a flooded pool over a submerged tunnel to an altar chamber.
Controlled by	Dunwich Borers LLC (Before the Great War)

Overview

A pre-War marble quarry in Fallout 4 whose company let its workers fall to their deaths while it dug ever deeper, apparently in search of an ancient temple. Two centuries later, raiders salvaging scrap for the Forged find its depths haunted.

History

Before the Great War Dunwich Borers LLC worked the quarry for marble. Its own terminal entries record a dangerous site: railings and supports were put up only where needed and replaced only when they had decayed completely, requests for more precautions were turned down, and several employees fell to their deaths while managers' complaints went unanswered. The company tried to keep the workers content with happy hours and picnics instead. The managers of the four job stations were Bob Stanson, Bradley Ramone, John Hatfield and Tim Shoots. According to the holotapes, the management's real interest lay deep below the marble: when a way through to an underground chamber was found, Shoots was told to lure the other station managers down there. About two hundred years after the war, raiders working for the Forged began stripping the quarry of scrap iron for Saugus Ironworks; when talk of the place being haunted slowed the work and then a crew vanished, their lieutenant Bedlam went down after them.

Workings

An open pit with an exterior lift and buildings, then an underground sequence of numbered job stations with terminals and circuit breakers, a huge pit, and corridors descending to a cavern at the deepest point. In flashbacks this cavern is a candlelit chamber with a marble platform and a pulpit where a robed man presides over nine kneeling figures; in the present a radioactive pool there hides a tunnel to a carved stone face and an altar bearing the knife called Kremvh's Tooth.

Closure

Abandoned at the Great War; the four station managers remain below as feral ghouls.

What became of it

Occupied by Forged-affiliated raiders on the surface and feral ghouls below; the deepest chambers shake with rumbles that grow stronger towards the bottom.

Canon & adaptations

The game tells the quarry's story through terminals, holotapes and wordless flashbacks. That the management was searching for a temple and that the station managers were sacrificed is the Fandom wiki's reading of the holotapes; the Independent Fallout Wiki describes the flashbacks without drawing that conclusion.

Recorded claims

Each claim is marked with its basis — explicit canon, MineArchive inference, adaptation only, or fandom interpretation — and attached to the source(s) below. Where tellings disagree, both are kept.

Dunwich Borers is a pre-War marble quarry in the Commonwealth in Fallout 4, worked by Dunwich Borers LLC. (explicit canon) ^1,2
The terminal entries record railings and supports renewed only when they had completely decayed, safety requests dismissed, and several employees falling to their deaths. (explicit canon) ^1,2
The company held happy hours and picnics to placate its workers. (explicit canon) ^1,2
The management was seeking an ancient underground temple rather than marble, and had Tim Shoots lure the other station managers down to it. (fandom interpretation, uncertain) ²
About two hundred years after the war, raiders working for the Forged salvage scrap metal there for Saugus Ironworks under the lieutenant Bedlam. (explicit canon) ^1,2
Flashbacks show a pre-War ritual in the deepest cavern, with a robed man at a pulpit before nine kneeling figures. (explicit canon) ¹
A submerged tunnel below the irradiated pool leads to an altar bearing Kremvh's Tooth. (explicit canon) ^1,2

Sources

(primary canon) Dunwich Borers — The Fallout Wiki — The Independent Fallout Wiki
(primary canon) Dunwich Borers — Fallout Wiki (Fandom) — Fandom (community wiki)

Record created: 9 October 2026 · Last researched: 10 October 2026