Greenburn Copper Mine, Cumbria. Survey Report
Author(s): A Oswald, Stewart Ainsworth, David McOmish
Between September and November 2000, English Heritage carried out an archaeological survey and investigation of Greenburn Copper Mine in Cumbria. The mine is regarded as an outlier of the Coniston Copper Mines and was known for parts of the 19th century as New Coniston Mine and Great Coniston Mine. The site was first mined for copper in the later 17th century. Most of the buildings were constructed before 1861 in the period of the mine’s most intensive use and some are fairly well preserved. The remains of a number of pieces of equipment for processing the ore also survive in situ and the complex as a whole is widely regarded as one of the best preserved copper mines in the Lake District. (This was report number 6/2001 in a previous series).
- Report Number:
- 122/2001
- Series:
- Other
- Pages:
- 120
