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| Stainton Iron Mines, Stainton with Adgarley | ||
| Stainton Iron Mines | ||
| Stainton Mine | ||
| locality:- | Stainton with Adgarley | |
| civil parish:- | Urswick (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | iron mine | |
| locality type:- | mine | |
| coordinates:- | SD24977266 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD2472 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD27 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Lan 22 2) placename:- Stainton with Adgarley Iron Mines |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) placename:- Stainton Mine item:- tools, mining |
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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 146:- "... an ancient working was broken into at Stainton Mine, in Furness, a few years ago, and two polished stone celts were found in it, lying in front of a body of ore, which their owners had probably been engaged in hewing. It is also probable that the Romans, who for many years held the important camp at Maryport, would detect the presence of iron ore in the Cleator and Egremont district, which must have been well known to them." |
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