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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

evidence:-   visit log:- KDMRS 1979-82
placename:-  White Creek Mine
item:-  fossil coralcoralfossil bivalvebivalve
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
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