Roughton Gill Mine and Silver Gill Mine, Cumbria. Survey Report
Author(s): Marcus Jecock, Christopher Dunn, Amy Lax
Between May to September 2000, English Heritage carried out an archaeological survey and investigation of Roughton Gill Mine and Silver Gill Mine in Cumbria. Silver Gill is the earlier of the two mines, with documentary evidence suggesting that it was in operation by the early 14th century. It exploited a mineral vein whose principal outcrop is in Silver Gill, a steep-sided ravine at the head of the valley; but by the late 18th century, the vein had been effectively exhausted, and the mine had been subsumed within Roughton Gill Mine, named after the adjacent ravine to the east where other veins had by that time been located. Surface evidence of mining at the head of the Dale Beck valley is extensive, therefore, and covers most of the valley floor, as well as extending deep into several of the gills and up over parts of the surrounding high fell. (This was report number 8/2001 in a previous series).
- Report Number:
- 123/2001
- Series:
- Other
- Pages:
- 110
