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Hay Gill Mines, Caldbeck
Hay Gill Mines
Hay Gill Mine
Dale Beck Level
Long Grain Trials
Short Grain Trials
Ingray Gill Trials
Birk Gill Trials
Old Potts Gill Copper Mine
locality:-   Caldbeck Fells
civil parish:-   Caldbeck (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   copper mine
locality type:-   lead mine
locality type:-   mine
coordinates:-   NY308360
1Km square:-   NY3036
10Km square:-   NY33
references:-   Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire):: ISBN 0 85206 931 6


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BNY85.jpg  Lead smelt mill.
(taken 15.8.2007)  
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BNY92.jpg  Level.
(taken 15.8.2007)  

evidence:-   old text:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
placename:-  Hay Gill Mine
item:-  copper orelead ore
source data:-   Book, Mines and Mining in the English Lake District, by John Postlethwaite, Keswick, published by W H Moss and Sons, Whitehaven, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1877; published 1877-1913.
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page 130:-  "HAY GILL AND RED GILL MINES"
"Both of these mines have been wrought extensively by the old men, with stope and feather. The former yields copper ore of very good quality, and the latter both lead and copper ores in great variety; indeed, it ranks next to Roughtengill in the variety of ores which it produces."
"These mines were wrought by various Companies, and a good deal of lead and copper ores raised from them."

evidence:-   old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
placename:-  Haygill Mine
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District Mining Field, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancashire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
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"Haygill Mine"
mine symbol 
item:-  JandMN : 162.2
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   mine drawing:- KDMRS 1979-82
placename:-  Hay Gill Beck Level
source data:-   Geological Outing of the Kendal and District Mine Research Society to Hay Gill Mines, Caldbeck
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KMR30.jpg
"HAY GILL BECK LEVEL"
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KMR31.jpg
"HAY GILL No 1 CROSSCUT"
item:-  private collection : 82
Image © see bottom of page

:-  
Mostly 18th century workings, worked to about 1874.

Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire):: ISBN 0 85206 931 6

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