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JMB
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13 years ago

I saw these Tweets from Time Team. They appear to be doing a dig about Victorian mining activity in the Lake District.

They never give out the locations but this year have been putting video reports on each dig on YouTube as well as the morning briefing.

A programme to watch out for in the New Year.

Time Team ?@thetimeteam
This Afternoon the Team had three trenches in surrounding some of the mining structures, in order to find...
Time Team ?@thetimeteam
We're off on yet another Time Team dig this week looking at some Victorian mining activity in the Lake District......
Time Team ?@thetimeteam
The Time Team got a safety brief this morning as getting to this weeks site involves a river crossing and a steep...
Time Team ?@thetimeteam
We're off on yet another Time Team dig this week looking at some Victorian mining activity in the Lake District......

Martin Briscoe
Fort William

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christwigg
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13 years ago

It Coniston Copper Mines, CATMHS members got a letter about it recently.

John_L
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13 years ago

From the bush telegraph - the dig is currently taken place - up past the YHA - with the boys trying to locate an old German coffin level. If they do locate it and enter it no prizes for quessing what they will find.

christwigg
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13 years ago

CATMHS letter last month said Time Team were going to be looking in Back Strings at Levers Water mine and Cobblers Level.

CATMHS were hoping to re-open Sebastian Mine at the same time.

Peter Burgess
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13 years ago

"John_L" wrote:
From the bush telegraph - the dig is currently taken place - up past the YHA - with the boys trying to locate an old German coffin level. If they do locate it and enter it no prizes for quessing what they will find.

A coffin level? :confused:

RJV
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13 years ago

"Peter Burgess" wrote:

"John_L" wrote:
From the bush telegraph - the dig is currently taken place - up past the YHA - with the boys trying to locate an old German coffin level. If they do locate it and enter it no prizes for quessing what they will find.
A coffin level? :confused:

A long-lost tribe of Amazonian Pygmies?

PeteJ
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13 years ago

At last!! Digging out old mines will be cool!

Pete Jackson
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Strangely Brown
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13 years ago

Sounds like they could do with a few expert diggers for this one, any one know any? 😉

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

derrickman
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13 years ago

"John_L" wrote:
From the bush telegraph - the dig is currently taken place - up past the YHA - with the boys trying to locate an old German coffin level. If they do locate it and enter it no prizes for quessing what they will find.

two broken bricks and half a flowerpot, indicating a Roman villa the size of a football pitch. Last dig on morning of last day changes everything. Exeunt omnes to pub.

''the stopes soared beyond the range of our caplamps' - David Bick...... How times change .... oh, I don't know, I've still got a lamp like that.

JMB
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13 years ago

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Surely half a flowerpot indicates that it is a ritual site and if is a glazed flowerpot then it is a high status ritual site?

Martin Briscoe
Fort William

crl50
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13 years ago

#11

Surely they need to find a broken bracelet to make it a ritual site :lol:

ChrisJC
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13 years ago

#12

I was there. Sebastian Mine wasn't found. Neither was much of Elizabethan origin. Lots of Victorian origin.

You'll have to wait until episode 9, broadcast in 2013 for the full story.

Was bloody good fun!

Chris.

christwigg
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13 years ago

#13

Would have been better if they hadn't have binned off Mary Ann Ochota after one series.

RJV
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13 years ago

#14

All those open stopes & nobody thought to chuck Baldrick down one! A crying shame...

Captain Scarlet
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13 years ago

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"ChrisJC" wrote:
I was there. Sebastian Mine wasn't found.

IF it exits, which I doubt, the easiest way to locate it would be to look at the area after a snowfall and look for the melted area. I have done this. I saw no indication a level beneath that scree slope.

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