In message <[log in to unmask]>, Peter
Challis <[log in to unmask]> writes
>On Tuesday, Nov 25, 2003, at 19:10 Europe/London, David Williams wrote:
>>
>> John Barnatt will shortly publish an article which lists
>> some 40ish horse grinder circles in the northern Peak District. For
>> some
>> obscure reason these only seem to occur north of the River Wye in any
>> quantity - in fact he claims that he only knows of one horse crushing
>> circle on a mine site outside Derbyshire, and this was for crushing
>> anthracite at a coal mine in mid-Ireland!!!!
>>
>>
>
>Unless my memory is playing tricks there is a horse crushing circle
>associated with the Shetland copper mine, can't remember the details
>though. Also, wasn't there one at Clogau gold mine or was that
>something else?
>
>Pete Challis
Hi Pete,
I stood to be corrected anyway, but were crushing circles common
elsewhere, I would have expected to have been deluged with examples,
that being the way these discussions evolve.
Cheers.
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David Williams
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