Hi fowks.

I heard about the tragedy with the 11 year old girl when I was down here yesterday, noticed said mine on the cliffs. I spent a good few hours with Rick exploring these shallow workings off the beaches here and towards Trebarwith Strand. Very small really but I managed to crawl into a fair few levels from the beach and find some subsequent stoping. In other areas it wasn't clear whether I was in a mine or within a sea cave, in some cases it seems to have been both.
Does anyone know the history of these mines, their names etc? I entered one at the headland between Trebarwith Strand and Perranporth, eventually it lead to what looked like a very early level, not quite a coffin level but perhaps of that age.

fascinating place, again, dangerous on parts of the cliffs though as a lot of the open stopes are obscured by grass and near the footpath. As was mentioned a few years ago, I think more signage is needed to stop potential accidents and so more stuff doesn't become gated.

thanks

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The Hamilton Jenkin Annotated 6" maps have most of them marked.
PM me if you haven't got them.

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You were looking at Wheal Droskyn. It's not on any of the OS maps (oddly), even the 25" of 1880.

The lode runs pretty much parallel to the cliff line (where the tunnels are) and just out from the big grilled off area, the lode splits and a branch goes off east where it crops out in the cliffs around from the fenced off steps.

There are quite a lot of shafts along the cliff (about 10) in that area and they intersect the south dipping lode at depth. The only workings you can get into are those by the steps on the caunter lode. Everything else are either drainage adit levels, or leats for the 2 waterwheels (pumping). One being inside that big grilled area and the other inside the "island" at the bottom of the steps....the one with a shaft in the top of it. The engine shaft, which is above where the grille is (rather than being where the sundial is) drains through a stub into the grilled off waterwheel chamber.

If you're that interested and want to see the plans. X560-33 is what you want from the record office

Thank you all.

I will post the photos to my Flickr and then link them here as the two mines were on opposite sides of Perranporth beach, very photogenic little places. Also came across "Dead Man's Pool" below the MOD land at the other end of the beach east of the holiday camp, big open work with pillar inside and a couple of gated levels leading off. I local told me that people went exploring in here sometimes.

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