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Registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation Number 1155775
SWAAG Honorary President:
Tim Laurie FSA

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 *****SWAAG_ID***** 469
 Date Entered 27/02/2012
 Updated on 27/02/2012
 Recorded by Tim Laurie
 Category Mining Related
 Record Type Mining
 Site Access Public Access Land
 Record Date 25/02/2012
 Location Crackpot Moor
 Civil Parish Grinton
 Brit. National Grid SD 95894 96456
 Altitude 476m
 Geology Cherts above the Main Limestone.
 Record Name Shafts on the Crackpot Vein below Blea Barf
 Record Description THese shafts are located on 'feebly mineralised (with galena and brown carbonate) but persistent fracture crossing below Blea Barf on Crackpot Moor ... this work was being done by J. Davies in 1818-23 when some 65 pieces (about five tonnes) of lead was produced.... production of a similar order continued as late as 1850.' Reference:Dunham K.C. and Wilson A.A., 1985. BGS Memoir: Geology of the North Pennine Orefield. Vol 2 Stainmore to Craven, pp169-170 and Figure 31.
 Dimensions See photgraphs
 Additional Notes This mine is of great interest in the high, at 470m elevation, and lonely situation of the strings of shafts together with the levels on the slopes below Blea Barf on the southern edge of Swaledale. The green turf covered limestone of the shaft mounds contrast greatly with the dark brown heather covered sandstone of Blea Barf Summit at 540m, see photographs.
 Image 1 ID 2332         Click image to enlarge
 Image 1 Description Crackpot Moor. Lead Mine Shaft Mounds below Blea Barf, north of Sun Gate.
 Image 2 ID 2330         Click image to enlarge
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 Image 3 ID 2331         Click image to enlarge
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 Image 4 ID 2333         Click image to enlarge
 Image 4 Description Shaft mounds and level on north facing slopes below Blea Barf
 Image 5 ID 2334         Click image to enlarge
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 Image 6 ID 2335         Click image to enlarge
 Image 6 Description Block of chert at base of shaft mound
 Image 7 ID 2336         Click image to enlarge
 Image 7 Description Crinoids in cherty limestone
 Image 8 ID 2337         Click image to enlarge
 Image 8 Description Mossy saxifrage at bottom of shaft mound.
 
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