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20/4/2004 Field Trip.

Botallack, Leader Pete Joseph

The field trip was lead by Pete Joseph who has surveyed and investigated the history of the site of Botallack and adjoining mines.

 

    Fifteen members of the Society turned up for the field trip in what was at times a force 8 gale coming on shore up the cliff.

   Some members had brought pack lunch; soon offers of help from the local inhabitants were available in the event of any thing left over

 

 

While walking around the site Pete pointed out many interesting features which would have gone unnoticed with out his knowledge of the mines which once operated here.

LEFT. This is thought to have been the site of the Burning House for Tolvean Mine, 1788.

RIGHT  Society members standing where Tolvean Stamps were in 1788.

 

LEFT. Here members are looking down Wheal Cock Engine Shaft. In 1907 when the mine was reopened it was found necessary to build a wall across the Zawn on the seaward side

RIGHT. The wall across the Zawn is app 50 ft high.

 

LEFT Looking over the wall down Wheal Cock Zawn to the sea some 200 ft below.

RIGHT. Crowns Engine houses. See also section on  Botallack and Crowns.

LEFT. Here Pete is describing Botallack dressing floor area

RIGHT. Some of the remains of the 1908 labyrinth of arsenic flues at Botallack. This structure is now under preservation and repair.