My golden share opportunity has panned out. Financial Mail on Sunday,
May 23, 1999 p 30 Questions of Cash by Tony Hetherington. “Four years
ago I invested £700 in Welsh Gold shares” [TH replies] “At present then,
your shares have little value. But don’t tear up the certificate. Gold
mining in Wales has been on-off affair for 150 years and you have little
choice but to wait for the cycle to resume.”
Mendip Miners Working on Durham Down [Bristol] in the Sixteenth Century
by Bob Williams. Retrospect No 217 June 1999 [p 4]. The burial records
of two Mendip Miners in 1574 proves that mining was taking place at
least 138 years earlier than previously known.
Les phosphatières du Quercy par Thierry Pélissié. Spelunca [ the three
times yearly journal of the French Speleo Federation] No 73 pp 23 - 38
illus. Describes guano mining 1865 - 1920.
Stock’s House Shaft, Chewton Minery - Another Lost Cave Rediscovered by
Tony Jarratt. Belfry Bulletin, May 1999 Vol 50 No 9 (502) pp 11 - 15,
2 photos, map, survey. Cavers have dug out one of Thomas Bushell’s
twenty shafts sunk around 1657 in search of a natural cave or swallow,
to unwater the flooded Row Pits mines nearby.
“Working in the Dark? Caves as Workshops in Roman Britain” by Keith
Branigan, Sheffield, UK. [in] THE HUMAN USE OF CAVES Edited by Clive
Bonsall and Christopher Tolan-Smith. 1997 218 pp illus. SB A4 BAR
International Series 667. £40.00. Around one hundred caves are known
to have been utilised during the Roman occupation of England and Wales,
mostly for temporary shelters. Others have been used as hideaways,
homes, and workshops for bone and bronze workers. Five caves have been
identified as bronze jewellery workshops: These are: Long Hole, Cheddar;
Attermire, Victoria and Albert Caves in Yorkshire, Thirst Cave and
Pooles Cavern, Derbyshire.
Contributed by Tony Oldham, Specialist Bookseller for Mines and Caves.
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