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I'm sure it will be easy, from the distinctive shape of the level. A field trip from my NMRS days, 35-40yrs ago. It was somewhere in the Dales & the only other clue, there were remains of wooden rails.

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Can't for the life of me think of the name...thanks.
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12 years ago
this looks like buckden gavel .
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Ok, thanks, but not Buckden Gavel.
I'll describe the journey, maybe that will ring a bell...Road ran up the right of the Dale & then crossed to the left. Close to this point was where we parked & then on foot back down either a lane, or possibly a track. After a while there's a farmhouse close to the track & all underground gear was kept out of sight, as the farmer was "hostile" to potholer's. Around this point branched right across country, now climbing (but not the sort of climb to Buckden Gavel). Gap in memory, then at the mine site, access by what seemed like a collapsed stope, a bit dodgy, needed a rope to hang on to. In the mine it was pretty much as you see in the photo, a high stope with stemples. It opened out at the far end into a sort of chamber & I think turned to the left, which is where the wooden rail was.
To be honest, it struck me as the sort of place that was worth seeing...but only the once.
The Dale was one of the slightly lesser ones, almost certainly not Wharfedale...
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Doesn't immediatly strike me as being in either Swaledale or Arkengarthdale but could very easily be wrong.
Never really tread any further south than that.
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12 years ago
Not in 'The Dales', but the shape of the level & narrow stope looks very much like Hartsop Hall mine in Cumbria.
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"Heb" wrote:

Not in 'The Dales', but the shape of the level & narrow stope looks very much like Hartsop Hall mine in Cumbria.



Heb, that's the one...knew I'd recognise it as soon as it was mentioned. Thanks, that'll teach me not to write it on the back of the photo...
Sorry if I mislead...thought it was "the Dales"...
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Glad to help, the stopes are quite distinctive in there. Have heard that there have been some recent collapses, so those pictures might be quite rare now!

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"Heb" wrote:

Glad to help, the stopes are quite distinctive in there. Have heard that there have been some recent collapses, so those pictures might be quite rare now!



Yes, could be...I've checked in the forum list of mines & there's an entry for Hartsop Hall, with no entries. I'll put what I've got in there, when I get chance...
Thanks to all...now, where are those Welsh ones, with nothing on the back?... 😉
Regards, John...

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Here's a recent-ish photo (Nov 11) showing a similarly defined level & stope.

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Not sure when the collapses are meant to have taken place but a year back it looked like pretty much the full mine as shown in the section in John Adams' book should have been accessible though it could probably do with re-bolting.
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Now that photo's the difference between a proper camera & my instamatic, with "magicubes" of 40yrs ago...thanks for sharing...
Regards, John...

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