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Ore Mining in the Lake District (Paperback)
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Ore Mining in the Lake District (Paperback)
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The Lake District mountains are full of mineral veins. Many have
been discovered and worked over the past 1,000 years. Many still
remain to be discovered. The last working metal-ore mine in the
Lake District, the Force Crag Mine, closed in 1986. It is believed
that mining commenced at Force Crag during the fifteenth century.
Today, remains of this past extensive industry lie abandoned on the
mountainsides and are now considered to be an iconic reflection of
the Lake District's industrial past. They blend in well with other
iconic 'industrial' structures such as stone walls, drove roads and
fell farms that exist throughout the district. For many years now
industrial historians have studied these workings and also the
lives of the skilled miners who spent their careers high on Lake
District mountainsides, working the veins. Concern for the loss of
many of these ancient sites has developed over recent years. In
1989 a report produced by local industrial archaeologists
highlighted a list of twenty-seven former mining sites on the fells
considered to be of such exceptional importance to the history of
the Lake District communities that they should be given future
protection. Many of these sites have been included in this
definitive illustrated guide.
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