More information : Between mid September and late November 2000, English Heritage carried out an analytical field investigation of the surface remains of Greenburn Mine; the survey was requested and partly funded by the landowners, the National Trust (Event record 1335820) (1). The best-preserved building, which comprises an accommodation block, office and workshop (NY 20 SE 9) serves as a parent record for the other components of the complex.
Long Crag Level was an adit which exploited the Long Crag Vein copper lode, probably begun c.1845 and abandoned shortly after, certainly by 1865. Slightly downslope from the mouth of the adit lies a dilapidated drystone building, in ruins by 1889, which appears to have served as a store and smithy.
For further information, see the report at Level 3 standard available through the NMR archive, which includes reproductions of 19th-century documents, extracts from the survey at 1:500 scale, photographs and interpretative drawings. (1)
Recorded by NRIM. (2) |