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| *****SWAAG_ID***** | 750 |
| Date Entered | 26/08/2013 |
| Updated on | 26/08/2013 |
| Recorded by | Tim Laurie |
| Category | Mining Related |
| Record Type | Mining |
| Site Access | Not known |
| Record Date | 22/08/2013 |
| Location | Moor House National Nature Reserve |
| Civil Parish | Forest and Frith |
| Brit. National Grid | NY 755 327 |
| Altitude | 550m |
| Geology | 'Netherhearth Veins: Around the headquarters at Moor House, a complex of intersecting E-W,NNW and ENE Veins were worked from shallow shafts, open cuts and adits.'
Source: The Geology of Moor House.' Monographs of the Nature Conservancy No 2,page 101.
The lead veins are worked in the Lower Tyne Bottom Limestone which forms the bed of the Moss Burn here. |
| Record Name | Netherhearth lead vein complex and bale, Part Two: mining remains and Bales at Moss Beck, Moor House. |
| Record Description | Early mining remains close to Moss Beck above the confluence with Rough Beck include shallow open cast workings on lead veins, a shaft and several circular patches free of vegetation with lead slag and partly burnt ore which are likely to mark the location of early Bale Smelting Sites. |
| Image 1 ID | 4664 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 1 Description | Moss Burn. View upstream with shallow lead workings on LH Bank. Dun Fell in distance.The lead veins are worked in the Lower Tyne Bottom Limestone which forms the bed of the Moss Burn here. |  |
| Image 2 ID | 4665 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 2 Description | Shaft mound. The vein rock is very dense blue-black rock with yellow fluorite crystals and galena strings. |  |
| Image 3 ID | 4673 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 3 Description | Yellow fluorite crystals on vein rock. |  |
| Image 4 ID | 4666 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 4 Description | Vein rock with galena string. |  |
| Image 5 ID | 4667 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 5 Description | Large Bale smelting area with slag and part burnt lead ore. |  |
| Image 6 ID | 4668 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 6 Description | Unburnt vein rock (LH specimen) and burnt slag (RH specimen) |  |
| Image 7 ID | 4669 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 7 Description | Lead slag from bale with cavities. |  |
| Image 8 ID | 4670 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 8 Description | Detail of the surface of lead bale with Spring sandwort (Minuartia verna) |  |
| Image 9 ID | 4671 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 9 Description | Metalophytes on lead bale: Thlaspi alpestre and Cochlearia officinalis |  |
| Image 10 ID | 4672 Click image to enlarge |
| Image 10 Description | Mossy saxifrage (Sax. hypnoides) on shaft mound. |  |
