Eylesbarrow Mine - Field Remains

Field Remains

...and its masonry collar

The large site was extensively surveyed by English Heritage in 1999, and details are held in the English Heritage Archive.

In common with most Dartmoor valleys, the entire valley floor of the upper River Plym and its tributaries are disturbed by the remains of streamworks. There are also a number of openworks that follow the lodes, and signs of leats and reservoirs and hundreds of prospecting pits. These all represent the efforts of the "old men" who worked the area for tin in the centuries before the mine came into being.

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