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.
The dilapidated remains of the explosives store. The building is depicted on the First Edition OS 6-inch map surveyed 1847-8, and has constructional characteristics in common with other structures thought to have been built c.1845. It is also depicted on a schematic plan thought to have been made before 1861, now held in Cumbria Record Office and the Second and Third Editions of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map, respectively surveyed in 1889 and 1912. The single rectangular room apparently had no windows and a single door oriented away from the main areas of activity. The interior was evidently divided into two at some point, possibly following the introduction of dynamite in the 1870s. The mine was abandoned c.1885, and it is uncertain whether the explosives store would have been re-used when work was renewed in 1906-8 and 1912-3.
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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