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Becky's Shaft

Dodington, Quantock Hills.

A shaft revealed after heavy rain in March 2024 drops into a roomy muddy chamber in Triassic Mercia Mudstone overlying Devonian slates and limestone. North a lovely hand cut tunnel with pick marks runs 5.5m and ends in a soft dry clay choke. To the south the passage widens and ends after 4m in a hand cut alcove. Facing that end a dig goes downhill to the left. The shaft is on a ridge where the surface drops steadily to the north ,south and east. North heads to where Derbyshire miners worked a short adit around 1756. Its unlikely that this shaft connects with those workings and is likely a trial adit of unknown extent.Pick marks suggest that the miners came in from the north somewhere above or beyond the choke. At some point it will be filled by the farmer.

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: Explored by The Quantock Mine Hydrology Project team in March 2024