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Sandford Hill Mine No.3 SSSS-52-D Udders Hole Sandford Rifts East Sandford Hill Mine No.2 Stanton's Shaft Girl's Hole Skeleton Rift Sandford East Ochre Mine Saville Row Shaft No.3 Whispering Gallery Saville Row Shaft No.1 Robert's Paradise Shaft 120 South Rift Sandford Rake Gran's Discovery Ellis' Wonder SSSS-32-N Groof House Shafts Sandford Gulf MCRA-SH-13 SSSS-43-G MCRA-SH-14 Fern Mine Scum Hole Rabbit Hole Classic Shaft MCRA-SH-11 Pearl Mine MCRA-SH-12 Summit Plantation Mine Pseudo Udders Hole MCRA-SH-1 King Mine MCRA-SH-8 Coffee Pot Rock Girt Pit MCRA-SH-7 SMCC-4 MCRA-SH-4 Sandford Bone Fissure SSSS-22-B Sandford Levvy MCRA-SH-2 SSSS-22-F Lyncombe Shaft MCRA-SH-3 SMCC-7 Triple Hole ACG-05 ACG-07 Elephant Cave SMCC-10 Lyncombe Mine SMCC-8 Bat Hole SSSS-22-O SMCC-12
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Summit Fields, Sandford Hill.
NGR: | ST 4312 5900 |
WGS84: | 51.32724, -2.81773 |
Length: | 20 m |
Depth: | 15 m |
Altitude: | 123 m |
Tags: | Mine, Lost |
Registry: | westmendip |
A 13m deep mineshaft entered a roomy natural chamber, up to 7m high and 2m wide. A short extension to the west was choked with mud and rock and to the east a small passage choked after 7m. Both chokes probably connected with other shafts leading to the surface. The mine was formed along a fault displaying up to ten inches of fault breccia. Rope-cut grooves in the entrance shaft were amongst the deepest discovered on Mendip suggesting that it was once a far deeper working. The mine was explored in the 1980s by Chris Richards (ACG) and Alan Dougherty (MCG) and subsequently obliterated when the field was levelled.
Alternate Names: None recorded.
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