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Hawk Riggs Minse
Hob Uid: 1461648
Location : Cumbria South Lakeland Coniston
Grid Ref : NY3011801594
Summary : Undisturbed copper mine with impressive hand-cut vertical opencut, with inferred Elizabethan origins. Small miner's hut nearby stands on the site of an earlier, more substantial hut. Later prospecting trenches probably early 20th century, and connected with Hellen's Mine.
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Source Number : 1
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Source details : The Copper Industry, Vol.2, Cumbria 7d, 1995
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Monument Period Name : Elizabethan
Display Date : Elizabethan
Monument End Date : 1603
Monument Start Date : 1558
Monument Type : Copper Mine, Opencut
Evidence : Earthwork

Monument Period Name : Early 20th Century
Display Date : Early 20th Century
Monument End Date : 1932
Monument Start Date : 1901
Monument Type : Prospecting Pit, Earthwork, Bothy
Evidence : Ruined Building

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External Cross Reference Number : NY 30 SW 81
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