Summary
The top of the platform is a maximum of 15.7m by 11.4m but the front of it is badly eroded. Among the deads in the spoilheap are a number of stones with shot holes drilled in them.
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Monument Types
- SPOIL HEAP (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- RAILWAY (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- PLATFORM (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- GRAPHITE MINE (Early 19th C to Late 19th C - 1819 AD to 1900 AD)
Description
Farey's Stage was driven in 1819 (Tyler, I. 1995, 144) thus giving an existing internal level an exit to the surface. According to Ian Tyler (Tyler, I. 1995, 111) when the Old Men's Level was re-opened in 1769 it was necessary to send men to re-locate the adit because it was covered in spoil. If this was the case, it raises the question of whether Farey's spoilheap covers an earlier adit of which there is no documentary record. The top of the platform is a maximum of 15.7m by 11.4m but the front of it is badly eroded. Among the deads in the spoilheap are a number of stones with shot holes drilled in them. From the mouth of the adit, running across the centre of the platform, there is a gradually broadening channel, about 4.5m wide and up to 0.5m deep which is probably the old course of a railway. the rock-cut adit entrance, 2.5m wide, is at an angle to the spoilheap; perhaps it continues the line of the adit beyond the Grand Pipe. Internally the adit is 1.7m high and 0.8m wide (Lax, A. 1995).
References
- SNA61977 - Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeology North. 2007. Historic Landscape Survey of Borrowdale, Cumbria.
- SZI7756 - Monograph: I Tyler. 1995. Seathwaite Wad.
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