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Summary

Arsenic Dressing Building and Tramway, Buctor Farm

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Structures, earthworks and below-ground mining features associated with Wheal Crebor Mine including a former canal and railway, east of Buctor Farm

Other References/Statuses

• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ARSENIC WORKS (XIX to XXI - 1867 AD to 2015 AD (Between))
• TRAMWAY (XIX to XXI - 1867 AD to 2015 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Buck, C., 2015, Buctor Farm, Tavistock (Report - Assessment). SDV359746.

The sites of at least two adjoined buildings are shown on Figures 9 and 13. Both appear to be related to dressing floor buildings, with a tramway extending from Site 41 (slime cisterns). Undated mine plans do not show these buildings, however, they appear to be related to the development work that went on at New Shaft – and the association of arsenic with the copper ore. This should have been separated during dressing (usually by calcining in furnaces and condensing in flues/lambreths) – but there is no documentary indication this site ever had an arsenic treatment works – this would have been a good site for such a processing activity, given the documentary evidence for arsenic production in its last working phase.

Survey
There is no evidence of this site at ground level.

Significance
Low

Recommendation
This site should be retained, with a minimal amount of disturbance to the footprint of the original building.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7058 - Archaeological Management Plan, Buctor Farm, Tavistock (Ref: 2015R055)

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