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Summary

One of three adits on the eastern slopes of the Tamar Valley, with an entrance to the north of the centre of George and Charlotte Mine, leading east past Ley's Shaft.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ADIT (XIX - 1801 AD to 1900 AD (Between))

Full description

Buck, C., 2010, George & Charlotte Mine, Morwell, Devon: Archaeological Assessment, 28-29 (Report - Assessment). SDV345606.

Middle Adit extended from the eastern slopes of the Tamar Valley, past Ley's Shaft and towards Down's Shaft. The excavated floor of the adit now reveals an opening 0.9 metres wide at ground level and 1.7 metres high. A padlocked steel gate has been set into the portal entrance to restrict access. During the past decade, the Tamar Mining Group have removed a great deal of earth and stone from the floor and mouth of the adit, and installed a tramway within the adit and a turntable (now removed) outside the portal, and tramway out to a spoil heap to the east, to illustrate how the material was separated then processed. The adit water drained under the turntable (in 2005), to a trench and outflow to the south, into the large spoil heap that descends steeply down slope to the centre of the mine. The tramrails have been built to extend from the turntable outside the portal to the east across the higher dressing floor. Other details: Figures 5, 7-8, 12, 18: site 5.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV4945 - Archaeological Assessment of George & Charlotte Mine, Morwell, Devon
• EDV4946 - Field Survey of George & Charlotte Mine, Morwell, Devon

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