Has anyone ever visited the iron/aragonite workings on warton crag. Being just a 20 minute bike ride from me I can get there whenever, though the farmer is a little worried about access to the main section (i.e. Crag Foot and Moss House mines). I did have a look at a smaller working over summer, not part of the main section (details in Ian Tylers book). This consisted of a open cut stope (interestingly the iron veins are vertical on Warton Crag.), with a small tunnel going for about 15 ft in the rear. Another tunnel was higher up in the open stope though I didn't have time to look at this. A little further down this vein was a shaft, going down maybe 2m before being blocked by rubble. This was nicely walled on one side.
The main workings contain a pump made of two barrels, and a "crystal tunnel". The mine workings also link with several small caves nearby, one of the main shafts in the main workings is in fact a cave.
regards
Linden
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