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SSSS-22-B SSSS-22-F Coffee Pot Rock Girt Pit MCRA-SH-12 MCRA-SH-10 Pearl Mine MCRA-SH-11 Elephant Cave Triple Hole Summit Plantation Mine Rabbit Hole SMCC-14 Classic Shaft Scum Hole SMCC-15 Mangle Hole SMCC-12 Holly Shafts SMCC-10 SMCC-17 SMCC-18 Bat Hole Sandford Gulf MCRA-SH-6 MCRA-SH-5 Fern Mine SSSS-22-O ACG-07 SSSS-22-N MCRA-SH-4 Sandford Rake SMCC-8 SMCC-19 Sandford Quarry Mine MCRA-SH-3 ACG-27 MCRA-SH-2 SMCC-7 Sandford Hill Mine No.4 ACG-05 MCRA-SH-7 High Mine ACG-26 MCRA-SH-8 Groof House Shafts SSSS-32-N SSSS-22-K Sandford Levvy SMCC-4 Robert's Paradise Test Mine Skeleton Rift MCRA-SH-1 Shaft 120 Saville Row Shaft No.1 Whispering Gallery Saville Row Shaft No.3 Pseudo Udders Hole South Rift King Mine Auger's Mines Spar Shaft Sandford Hill Mine No.3 Deep Groove Mine SSSS-43-G Gran's Discovery Ellis' Wonder Sandford Rifts East Sandford Hill Mine No.2 Bighorn Rift Sandford Quarry Cave No.2 Udders Hole SSSS-52-D MCRA-SH-13
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Sandford Wood, Sandford Hill.
NGR: | ST 42738 59158 |
WGS84: | 51.32862, -2.82324 |
Length: | 0 m |
Depth: | 0 m |
Altitude: | 0 m |
Tags: | Lost |
Registry: | westmendip |
This site was opened by William Beard in 1838 while looking for bones. It was still open in 1863 when geologist James Parker applied to work at the site he described as 'an old mining shaft'.
Alternate Names: Churchill Bone Cave, Sandford Hill Bone Fissure
Notes: The location of this fissure is unknown although it is possible that Pearl Mine, Elephant Cave and the Sandford Bone Fissure are all one and the same. However, there are so many shafts, trenches and other mined features on Sandford Hill, that it is impossible to say with any certainty.
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This entry was last updated: 2024-03-02 14:13:41
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