White Creek Mine, Arnside | ||
White Creek Mine | ||
civil parish:- | Arnside (formerly Westmorland) | |
county:- | Cumbria | |
locality type:- | mine | |
1Km square:- | SD4377 (?) | |
10Km square:- | SD47 | |
references:- | KDMRS 1979-82 |
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evidence:- | visit log:- KDMRS 1979-82 placename:- White Creek Mine item:- fossil coral; coral; fossil bivalve; bivalve |
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source data:- | Notes, log book of Geological Outings, mine plans, etc, Kendal
and District Mine Research Society, Kendal area, Cumbria, etc,
visits made 1979-82. Geological Outing of the Kendal and District Mine Research Society Log book page 3:- "DATE - SUNDAY 25/3/79 / MAP REF - N/A / LOCATION - ARNSIDE CLIFFS / NAME - ARNSIDE/ TYPE OF SITE - SEA CLIFFS / WORKING OR DISUSED - N/A / PEOPLE IN PARTY [ ] / NOS. OF PHOTOS - No.3 / SPECIMENS FOUND - CORALS FOSSILISED, ALL SIZES AND SHAPES. BIVALVE APPROX 3[in] DIAMETER./ COMMENTS - WENT IN SEARCH OF WHITE CREEK MINE. SEARCHED ARNSIDE CLIFF WOODS FOR APPROX. 2 HRS, AND FOUND NOTHING TO INDICATE A MINE HAD EVER BEEN THERE, THOUGH IT IS QUITE POSSIBLE THAT IT HAS COLLAPSED AND BEEN OVERGROWN, SINCE THE LAST PHOTOGRAPHS OF THIS MINE WERE TAKEN IN 1962/1964." item:- private collection : 82 Image © see bottom of page |
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