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| HER Number: | MDV8085 |
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| Name: | Smallacombe Iron Mine |
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Summary
Smallacombe Iron Mine. Smallacombe open cast cutting is very overgrown. Also it may at times have been connected with the haytor iron mine, being on the same magnetic beds.
Location
| Grid Reference: | SX 777 766 |
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| Map Sheet: | SX77NE |
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| Admin Area | Dartmoor National Park |
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| Civil Parish | Ilsington |
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| District | Teignbridge |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | ILSINGTON |
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Protected Status: none recorded
Other References/Statuses
- Old DCC SMR Ref: SX77NE/37
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- MINE (XVIII to XXI - 1751 AD to 2009 AD)
Full description
Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV282420.
Harris, h. /industrial archaeology of dartmoor/(1968)200. Smallacombe open cast cutting is very overgrown. Also it may at times have been connected with the haytor iron mine, being on the same magnetic beds.
Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SDV282421.
Aph=raf/cpe/uk/1890 2443(10/12/1946).
Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV282422.
Hamilton jenkins, a. K. /mines of devon:n and e dartmoor/(1981)137-138. Smallacombe iron mine (same outcrop as haytor iron mines sx77ne/35 and sx77ne/36). Worked during mid and later 19th centuries, at first by adits ventilated by shafts subsequently as an open quarry known as the smallacombe cutting. Produced both brown haematite and magnetite. Another adit driven obliquely through the one in 1870's. Closed in 1880's and reopened for short time in 1917 (hamilton jenkins, a. K. ).
Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV282423.
Burt, r. Et al/devon and somerset mines/(1984)101. Owners and output given (burt et al).
Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV282424.
Reid, c. Et al/the geology of dartmoor/memoirs of the geological society explanation sheet/338(1912). Diagram of adits and shafts (reid et al).
Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV282425.
Worksheet(griffiths 1986). Vis=4/6/1986 (d. m. griffiths) site now tree covered spoil heaps which have apparently collapsed into one of the old workings (griffiths).
Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV282426.
Richardson, p. H. G. /british mining/44/(1992)61-2/mines of dartmoor and the tamar valley after 1913/in smr.
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.
Visible and recorded.
Sources / Further Reading
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| SDV282421 | Aerial Photograph: |
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| SDV319854 | Cartographic: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. 1985. Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP. Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England Aerial Photograph P. Cartographic. |
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Associated Monuments
| MDV8083 | Related to: Haytor Iron Mine, Ilsington (Monument) |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events: none recorded
| Date Last Edited: | Jul 18 2023 10:17AM |
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