If not I have a couple of copies for sale
Mike
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From: "HOYLE, Jon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: Newent Coalfield
> Have you seen
>
> Bick D 1987 The Mines of Newent And Ross
>
> Published by The Pound House, ISBN 0 906885 06 X
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Brewis [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 11 November 2003 12:20
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Newent Coalfield
>
>
> Amongst old papers I found in the attic is a report I wrote in
> 1950 as a mining student at the RSM on a geology field trip
> to study the May Hill area in Gloucestershire.
> Our group stayed at the George Hotel in Newent (where they
> did a very nice rough cider), and on the first day we did a
> traverse from north to south. The description of this starts off:
> "The area [i.e. May Hill] was approached from Newent along the
> Clifford's Mesne road..... At one point on this road a farm was
> visited which had been the site of some coal mines. These were
> on a limited patch of Coal Measures, cropping out between a
> fault on the west and Triassic rocks to the east. The fault had its
> downthrow to the east, bringing the Coal Measures [to its east]
> against the Old Red Sandstone [to its west]. To the north and
> south the Triassic rocks cover up any Coal Measures that are
> present and so limit their outcrop in those directions also. This
> coalfield was known as the Newent Coalfield."
> The coalfield lay to the north of the area we were really studying
> for which we had large scale (six inch to the mile) maps, so apart
> from this passing reference, I wrote no more about it. With such
> a limited outcrop, output cannot, one imagines, have been very
> great.
> Does anyone have any information, or know of good sources?
> Tony Brewis
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