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| Red Tarn Mine, Lakes | ||
| Red Tarn Mine | ||
| site name:- | Red Tarn | |
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | iron mine | |
| locality type:- | mine | |
| coordinates:- | NY268038 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2603 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY20 | |
| references:- | Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire)::
ISBN 0 85206 931 6 |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) placename:- Red Tarn Mine item:- iron ore; haematite |
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| 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. goto sourcepage 127:- "EWER GAP, RED TARN, AND TONGUE GILL MINES" "The Iron Mines in the volcanic rocks of English Lakeland were at one time of some importance, although inferior to those in the Skiddaw Slates. Robinson says (A.D. 1709), "Langdale and Conningston mountains do abound most with iron veins, which supplies with ore and keeps constantly going a furnace in Langdale, where great plenty of good and malleable iron is made, not much inferior to that of Dantzic." The ore which supplied this furnace is supposed to have been raised at Red Tarn, which lies at the head of Browney Gill, about two and a half miles south-west of Langdale, and in Tongue Gill, at the foot of Fairfield, about four miles north-east of Langdale." "..." |
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Test borings and shallow pits, northward from north end of Red Tarn, 1860. |
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| Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire)::
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