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I’m excited to be starting a new project with this post, a visual bibliography.
Chapters III of William Crossing’s A Hundred Years on Dartmoor covers the topic of the Industry on the Moor in the 19th Century. A significant part of that chapter describes the mining industry, this blog series will therefore start its exploration of that chapter with the mines of Dartmoor.
A Visual Bibliography
Over a series of posts I will collate the names and locations of the mines listed in several publications. These I will bring together in a map that will form a handy visual bibliography to mining on Dartmoor.
A Great Little Book
I have started the bibliography with the best Dartmoor mining book on my shelf, but one with a problem.
Since obtaining the small publication heavy usage has left its toll. It has lost its cover and front matter, leaving me guessing at its title, which I believe was something like:
The Mines of the Dartmoor Granite Mass
In the preface it names the Exeter Industrial Archaeology Group, and describes the book as a Pamphlet in which Michael Atkinson, Roger Burt, Peter Waite. Distilled their knowledge. The preface was written by Walter Minchinton in 1977. I am still scouring the internet for a copy, when I have found one I will update this post with a link, a this is definitely a book worth grabbing when you see it.
The Mines
The numbers preface by ‘#’ in this list refer to the reference numbers in the book for the mine. The grid references are linked to the locations on the Ordnance Survey on-line mapping, and the historic map link will take you to the side by side map on the excellent National Library of Scotland website. Those mines with a ‘*‘ are mentioned by Crossing in A Hundred Years on Dartmoor.
Bachelor’s Hall*
#24 SX597734 Tin
Bagtor
#1 SX762759 Tin
Baracott
#25 SX740822 Tin
Birch Tor and Vitifer *
#2 SX680810;. Tin
Bowden Hill
#26 SX819809 Micaceous Haematite
Bushdown mine
#3 SX680820 Tin
Devon Tin
#27 SX668738 Tin
East Vitifer
#4 SX708823 Tin
Eylesbarrow *
#5 SX598681 Tin
Foxhole
#28 SX546854 Tin
Gobbit *
#6 SX647728 Tin
Golden Dagger *
#7 SX680803 Tin
Goosford
#29 SX676918 Tin, Mispickel
Great Rock
#8 SX827815 Micaceous Haematite
Great Weeke Consols
#30 SX713875 Tin
Great Wheal Elenor
#9 SX735833 Tin
Hawkmoor
#10 SX798818 Micaceous Haematite
Hemsworthy
#34 SX745761 Tin
Hexworthy
#11 SX655710 Tin
Holwell
#32 SX746774 Tin
Huntingdon
Kelly
#13 SX795818 Micaceous Haematite
King’s Oven and Waterhill
#14 SX674813 Tin
Kit
#15 SX563675 Tin
Laployd Down
#33 SX807850 Micaceous Haematite
Moorwood
#16 SX777838 Micaceous Haematite
Nun’s Cross
#17 SX602699 Tin
Peck Pits
#34 SX763833 Tin
Plumley
#18 ; SX804806 Micaceous Haematite
Rattlebrook *
#35 SX560857 Tin
Ringleshutes
#36 SX674698 Tim
Shaptor
OS Historic 6″
#19 SX806810 Micaceous Haematite
Shuttamoor
#20 SX823829 Micaceous Haematite
Steeperton
#37 SX615884 Tin
West Vitifer
#21 SX679828 Tin
Whiteworks*
#22 SX612708 Tin
Wray
#23 SX771848 Micaceous Haematite
Wheal Prosper
#38 SX573793 Tin
This information will now be uses to create the first layer of the visual bibliography map. I’m excited to see what patterns emerge when that map is built up. The next post in this series will launch the first draft.
A Hundred Years on Dartmoor is now available on kindle.
William Crossing’s classic book on 19th Century Dartmoor has been republished in the Kindle format with additional material.
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