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| Drygill Mine, Caldbeck | ||
| Drygill Mine | ||
| Dry Gill Mine | ||
| locality:- | Dry Gills | |
| locality:- | Caldbeck Fells | |
| civil parish:- | Caldbeck (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | lead mine | |
| locality type:- | mine | |
| coordinates:- | NY32283454 (etc etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3234 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY33 | |
| references:- | OS County Series |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 47 12) placename:- Drygill Mine |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. "Drygill Mine (Lead) / Level (Lead) / Level (Lead) / ..." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) placename:- Drygill Mine |
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| 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. PST2NY33.jpg "Drygill Mine" mine symbol item:- JandMN : 162.2 Image © see bottom of page |
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Pretty rocks:- |
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Probably early 19th century; last worked 1869, except some exploration in 1894. |
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| Dry Gill Vein perhaps an extension of the Carrock End Copper Vein, complicated mixture
including iron oxide, baryte, psilomane, pyromorphite and campylite. |
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| Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire)::
ISBN 0 85206 931 6 |
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