Odd structure, North Cornwall near Trevalga

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Maggot
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6 years ago

Anybody here know what this is/was?
Spotted while walking along the coast path on holidays.
It's a circular, stone built feature. At the centre of the platform are two rectangular holes, connecting to passages beneath the structure which open out and emerge as 'windows' in its North wall (the draught through these is massive!). Further down the cliff is a wide terraced area that didn't seem to connect to anything (and another one even further down).

https://zoom.earth/#50.683517,-4.720552,18z,map

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trebor
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6 years ago

Military ? Mind can't see what a gun emplacement would be protecting.

rufenig
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6 years ago

Terraced garden of a lost "Manor house" :smartass:
See this map (N.B. Ladies window.)
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=50.6836&lon=-4.7185&layers=168&b=1

spitfire
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6 years ago

It's a very impressive horse whim I saw it many years ago and always meant to go back and photograph it but never did.
There are three slate workings on that cliff and I think this one is called "Lamb's House", if not it will be "Long Grass".

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Chalcocite
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6 years ago

The location here is not Long Grass or Lambs House Quarries! . These quarries are found in the coastal section between Tinagel Head and Trebarwith Strand, along with West Quarry, Lanterdan and Dria Quarry.
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Morlock
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6 years ago

Just off the East of the map they are annotated as "Boscastle Quarry (Slate).

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Karl Marx
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6 years ago

Bourgeoisie doing the 19th century equivalent of a rapper flexin

spitfire
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6 years ago

Whoops! I seem to have made a balls of that, sorry

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Maggot
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6 years ago

Mystery solved, many thanks :thumbsup:

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Morlock
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6 years ago

#10

"Maggot" wrote:
At the centre of the platform are two rectangular holes, connecting to passages beneath the structure which open out and emerge as 'windows' in its North wall

Presumably some sort of crusher with the product (road chippings?) being extracted via the passages?

Maggot
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6 years ago

#11

After more web trawling, can confirm it's a whim platform.
Found on the Historic England site
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1223543

Quote:

TREVALGA SX 09 SE
Whim plat 100 metres to north west 1/224 of Manor House II
Whim plat. Circa early C19. Slate stone rubble. Built into side of steeply sloping bank above disused quarry and mine on sea edge. The semi-circular structure is a retaining wall with a flat platform on which the capstan was placed and 2 shafts with large openings on the lower side to accommodate the ropes used to haul the material from below.

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Morlock
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6 years ago

#12

Perseverance pays off.:)

crickleymal
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6 years ago

#13

Nah, Perseverance is in the Forest of Dean and has been shut for 100 years 😉

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