Summary
Forty meters west of Old Men's Stage is an adit and its accompanying spoil heap cut into the side of Newhouse Gill.
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Monument Types
- PLATFORM (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- SPOIL HEAP (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- GRAPHITE MINE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- ADIT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Description
Forty meters west of Old Men's Stage is an adit and its accompanying spoil heap cut into the side of Newhouse Gill. The spoilheap is partly turf covered and is composed of material of differing sizes. The platform is 3.5m in diameter and only 8.0m high; the relatively small size suggests that this was simply a trial adit which did not discover any deposits of graphite. Its date is unknown but it does not appear on Farey's plan and also it utilises the side of the stream in the same manner as Gill Stage further upstream which is dated to 1832; this suggests a date around the early to mid nineteenth century. The adit is reached by a small track along the side of the gill. The tunnel is arch-shaped and measures 2.0m wide and approximately 2m in height although the bottom of it is water- filled (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- SNA61977 - Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeology North. 2007.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