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Posted: 18/07/2012 10:52:38 Reply |  Quote
A fantastic maze of mine workings reputed to date from the 1550s up to around the 1920s: some straight, modern adits from which lead a chaotic and warrenesque array of small chambers, many barely large enough to swing the proverbial cat. Several seams of red & yellow ochre and a multitude of calcite formations. Excepting a large electric pump installed to extract water for a nearby stone washing plant c1970s, very few other remains of machinery / equipment. Some large and dramatic chambers, some flooded, open to daylight. Some scaffold platforms have been built in the mine to allow divers to reach the chambers below entry adit level which are flooded, but these appear to be out of use now. One of the flooded chambers has other entries on an opposite side, once nearer to these daylight can be seen. A wander of the mountainside above will reveal many tempting holes.... some fenced, some not..... greater in number than the number of openings visible from below.

Anyone visiting this mine should bear in mind that it is below an active limestone quarry.... no, in fact two independent quarries, run by different companies, presently CEMEX and T.S. Rees. Should you hear the sound of the siren drifting in through the open chambers, you have around two minutes to find a safe place and say your prayers! Therefore evening / weekend visiting is the safer option. IP: 86.152.29.193
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