Summary
The monument includes Borrowdale graphite mines together with the remains of all associated features including a grinding mill, sawpit, guardhouses, spoil heaps, trackways and three boundary stones. It is located at the south western end of Borrowdale valley, above the hamlet of Seathwaite, on the north western side of the valley
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Monument Types
- SPOIL HEAP (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Description
At the northwestern edge of the Wadhole is another spoilheap the main slope of which is interrupted by two minor platforms although its top is 4.8m wide. The spoil has come form an adit measuring 3.0m wide and 1.0m deep with the remains of a stone lining at its mouth. On the eastern side if the adit are the remains of a stone hut up to 0.6m high and not less than 1.4m by 0.9m (Lax, A. 1995).
References
- SNA61977 - Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeology North. 2007. Historic Landscape Survey of Borrowdale, Cumbria.
Other Statuses and References
None Recorded
Associated Events
- ENA4020 - Field Survey, Historic Landscape Survey of Borrowdale, Cumbria
Associated Finds
None Recorded
Related Records
- Related to: Graphite (Wad) Mine on Seathwaite Farm, Borrowdale (Monument) - 20118 / MNA119961