Subject: | | Alderley Edge scheduling |
From: | | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 1:54 AM Subject: working mines
> Hallo, > are there any other underground mines producing slate, clay, gypsum, > fluorspar or other industrial minerals or building material ? > Unfortunately these are all mines I know: > Honister (slate, Lake District) > Llechwedd (slate, Blaenau Ffestiniog) > Aberllefenni [...]40_6Feb200120:27:[log in to unmask] |
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Date: | | Thu, 13 Dec 2001 03:54:14 EST |
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I can confirm the message that Mike put on the bulletin board. I would like
to make a couple of comments.
1. The correspondent 'Janice Neil' should be asked by someone (English
Heritage?) where the gold bars are that were allegedly found near the Golden
Stone.
2. The Golden Stone was scheduled as a late medieval boundary marker, not
because gold bars were allegedly found near there.
3. The Saddlebole scheduling is similarly on the basis of being a late
medieval marker stone on the boundary between two parishes. There is no
apparent connection between it and the mining or (possible) smelting in the
area.
4. I have not got a copy of the scheduling notice for the Beacon but my
recollection is that it was scheduled as a prehistoric mound.
5. The treatment works between West and Wood mines was scheduled on the
basis of the, albeit limited, processing of cobalt on the site in the 1860s.
6. Now that these sites has been scheduled, let us hope that it deters the
metal detectorists.
Conclusion: 'Janet Neil' needs to check her facts a bit more carefully.
If bona fide mine historians want more information on the schedulings, please
feel free to contact me.
Regards
Nigel Dibben
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