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Just out of curiosity, I have seen this photo and wondered where it was. Are you 100% sure this is Davey's shaft (the one under the garage)?

I'm not totally convinced which one, but I've seen a similar scene on my travels around and I'm pretty sure it is actually in the village with the house still standing. It's not Muttrall Shaft is it? (The one on the corner of the junction with the footway shaft in matey's weeny front garden).. Not confusing it with Davey's and D's footway.

Edit:- Wrong photo, I was looking at the other one with the house in it. It doesn't look like the same site to me.

I assume I'm wrong.

There is no doubt whatsoever that this is Davey's shaft (the one under the garage with the chairs from St.Day school jammed in it) and if you compare it with the classic shot of Davey's, you will notice some obvious clues.
The cottage is the one that has now been modernised and extended etc, is the same in both shots, the small outbuilding was used, up untill 1974, as a toilet with the outfall going straight into the shaft. When the original group did the first explorations here in 1973, they had to get the tenant, who coincidentaly was called Mr.Davey, to desist from using it whilst they were lowering people down the shaft.
Another pointer is the stone built collar which in the earlier photo (the one in question) does not have the boundary wall built in front of it yet.
The headframe too has certain features that remained the same from the earlier development headframe, namely the superstructure and the staircase at the right rear of the picture. There are other similarities you can see, if you can get both pics up at the same time to compare. O.K. the perspective is slightly different but that's easy to make allowances for. :thumbup:

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Nice reply Roy!

I'd like to have a proper look around Gorland, but it seems most of it has been obscured and anything remotely interesting is in people's gardens. Been underground to Robartes lode. Would like to know what the other grilled shafts drop into.... The one behind the fish and chip shop and the one in matey's garden.... I suppose if no-one did it back in the day, we'll never know.

I dont have any info on them Stuey. pity really!
I think also you mean Roberts Lode and not Robartes. 🙂

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I have a very old piece of literature somewhere that refers to Robert's lode as "The great gozzan lode" and the shaft as Robartes shaft.

Perhaps time has perverted the spelling or perhaps it was old english.

Very interesting piece of writing about the minerals there and most certainly points to where the diggers are and where they're going.

My concern is that they are well above the county adit level and assuming that is shallow adit, does Robert's lode actually go to the junction where they want to go, or is it below that? The talk of lodes intersecting each other is at deep adit level.

A most interesting mine. I'd like to know if Magor's shaft and the one that the winder worked are still open (haven't had a look yet). That's the way in through the CA. (But I think it is a swim/struggle to get 5 yards).