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| Blease Gill Trial, Threlkeld | ||
| Blease Gill Trial | ||
| site name:- | Blease Gill | |
| locality:- | Gategill Fell | |
| civil parish:- | Threlkeld (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | lead mine | |
| locality type:- | mine | |
| coordinates:- | NY315267 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3126 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY32 | |
| references:- | Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire)::
ISBN 0 85206 931 6 |
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| evidence:- | perhaps old text:- Clarke 1787 |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland,
and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith,
Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93. goto sourcePage 60:- "... On the south side of this tremendous mountain, above a place called High-Row, and in some other places, trials have been made for minerals; but at what time, and with what success, even tradition is silent. I went into one of the levels, and found these works had been carried on previous to the invention of gun-powder, as there were marks of picks and wedges, and of no other tools. ..." |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) placename:- Bleasegill Mine |
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| 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. PST2NY22.jpg "[Bleasegill Mine]" mine symbol item:- JandMN : 162.2 Image © see bottom of page |
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West bank of Blease Gill, trial level, little mineralisation found. |
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| Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire)::
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