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.
A shaft which exploited the Gossan Vein copper lode, documented as having been started and abandoned at a depth of c.9m due to flooding, a few months before December 1865. The shaft, which remains flooded, lies at the rear of the central one of a series of seven shallow trial cuttings.
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)
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