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Summary

Site of an ‘old shaft’ shown on the 1867 survey plan & on the os (1884) map. The shaft, also known as ‘sprage’s shaft’, is sited on ‘ding dong lode’ between the ‘bedford united’ & ‘south bedford’ mines. The survey in 2003 found a circular depression 5m diameter x 1m deep with a small central collapse 0.3m deep. To the west of the shaft is a spoil heap 1.5m high x 2m long x 1m wide & to the east of the shaft are a series of prospecting pits & trenches (buck).

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX47SW/517/1

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• SHAFT (XVIII to XXI - 1751 AD to 2009 AD (Between))

Full description

BUCK, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV219466.

Site of an ‘old shaft’ shown on the 1867 survey plan & on the os (1884) map. The shaft, also known as ‘sprage’s shaft’, is sited on ‘ding dong lode’ between the ‘bedford united’ & ‘south bedford’ mines. The survey in 2003 found a circular depression 5m diameter x 1m deep with a small central collapse 0.3m deep. To the west of the shaft is a spoil heap 1.5m high x 2m long x 1m wide & to the east of the shaft are a series of prospecting pits & trenches (buck).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV220675.

Des=buck, c.(cornwall archaeological unit)/bedford united mine: archaeological assessment/(2003)67-68+figs 8,13+24/cau report no 2003ro43 site 72 in smr.

Waterhouse, R., 2017, The Tavistock Canal. Its History and Archaeology, 180, figs 6.30-32 (Monograph). SDV361789.

Shown on map of surface workings at Ding Dong.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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