Old Cumbria Gazetteer
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| placename:- | Eagle Crag Mine | |
| site name:- | Eagle Crag | |
| site name:- | Grisedale | |
| parish |
Patterdale parish, once in
Westmorland
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| county:- | Cumbria | |
| lead mine; mine | ||
| coordinates:- |
NY358142 | |
| 10Km square:- |
NY31
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| References |
Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells:
Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire):: ISBN 0 85206 931
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| 1Km square | NY3514 | |
 Eagle Crag Mine -- Eagle Crag -- Grisedale -- Patterdale -- Cumbria / -- 17.3.2009 | ||
| sketch map:- |
KDMRS 1979-82
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| Log book and sketch maps from the Kendal and District Mine Research Society, 1979-82. | ||
| Geological Outing of the Kendal and District Mine Research Society | ||
| Log book page 91:- | ||
| DATE - 7/6/81. / MAP REF - (NY31) 3540/1365. / LOCATION - EAGLE CRAG / NAME - EAGLE CRAG MINES. / TYPE OF SITE - MINES / WORKING OR DISUSED - DISUSED / PEOPLE IN PARTY [ ] / NOS. OF PHOTOS - 52 / SPECIMENS FOUND - GALENA, COPPER PYRITES CERRUSITE, AND SMALL AMOUNTS OF PYROMORPHITE & AZURITE / COMMENTS - WARM SHOWERY DAY. QUITE A FEW LEVELS LEFT OPEN , BUT, ARE EITHER BLOCKED AFTER A FEW YARDS OR ARE ONLY VERY SHORT TRIALS. ONE LEVEL IS APPROX 50YDS LONG, AND ENDS IN A ROCK WALL. | ||
| placename:- | Eagle Crag Mines | |
| coordinates:- |
NY35401365 | |
| date:- | 1981 | |
| period:- | 1980s | |
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Eagle Crag Vein and a branch called Clay Vein.
Probably dates from elizabethan times; lasted to 1880. Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire):: ISBN 0 85206 931 6 | ||
| Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008 | ||
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