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Blease Gill Trial, Threlkeld
Blease Gill Trial
site name:-   Blease Gill
locality:-   Gategill Fell
civil parish:-   Threlkeld (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   lead mine
locality type:-   mine
coordinates:-   NY315267
1Km square:-   NY3126
10Km square:-   NY32
references:-   Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire):: ISBN 0 85206 931 6

evidence:-   perhaps old text:- Clarke 1787
source data:-   Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.
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Page 60:-  "... On the south side of this tremendous mountain, above a place called High-Row, and in some other places, trials have been made for minerals; but at what time, and with what success, even tradition is silent. I went into one of the levels, and found these works had been carried on previous to the invention of gun-powder, as there were marks of picks and wedges, and of no other tools. ..."

evidence:-   old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
placename:-  Bleasegill Mine
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District Mining Field, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancashire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
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"[Bleasegill Mine]"
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item:-  JandMN : 162.2
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West bank of Blease Gill, trial level, little mineralisation found.

Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire):: ISBN 0 85206 931 6

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