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christwigg
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8 years ago

This was raised in the Facebook page that I know not everyone read, so wondered if anyone had any thoughts.

Many years ago when I first started looking in mines, I read Mike Gills Swaledale book and went to the location marked on the plan as Ash Pot Level to the east of the line of Victoria Level
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Here was a small level that ended in a forehead to my memory, pretty much like the plan.
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But someone on the Facebook thread pointed out, they think Ash Pot is further up the gill to the west of Victoria, which ties in with this plan.
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Strangely the description in Mike Gills book says it was probably used as a waygate to Victoria, which suggest the latter location, at odds with his map.

Anyone care to say which is Ash Pot Level :flowers:

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RJV
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8 years ago

I remembered the Ash Pot level you looked at being to the north per the first map? Though it was a while ago so I could be very wrong about that.

christwigg
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8 years ago

"RJV" wrote:
I remembered the Ash Pot level you looked at being to the north per the first map? Though it was a while ago so I could be very wrong about that.

Well south, but the first map yes.

Dodgy entrance next to the stream
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RJV
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8 years ago

Sorry! Meant north per the second map. Higher than the stream, maybe twenty or thirty yards higher than the Victoria Level adit?

Edit - it was actually Roger Level I was thinking of, I have no recollection of Ash Pot whatsoever.

christwigg
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8 years ago

I don't think you came in, you went looking for the next one over.

I *think* the one I went in is the one in the green circle.

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Victoria is the red circle.
But what the one in the blue thats actually marked on the old OS map.

Is that really Ash Pot perhaps ?