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Byfield Quarry Shaft S18 Byfield Quarry - Allottment Shaft T2 Byfield Quarry Shaft S1 Job Salter's Well Byfield Quarry Shaft S4 Byfield Quarry Shaft T1 Byfield Mine Location Byfield Quarry - Irving's Incline Firs Quarry Location Byfield Quarry Shaft S2 Allotments Quarry Byfield Quarry Shaft R4 Byfield Quarry Shaft R2 Byfield Quarry Shaft R3 Byfield Quarry Shaft Q1 Byfield Entrance 1 Byfield Entrance 2 Firs Quarry - De Montalt Place Firs Quarry - Davidge's Bottom Byfield Quarry Unknown Shaft Cox's Quarry Location Firs Quarry - Quarry Bottom (West) Firs Quarry - Quarry Bottom (East) Byfield Quarry Shaft R1 Byfield Quarry Shaft 495 Firs Quarry Shaft D3 Byfield Quarry Shaft P1 Vinegar Down Quarry Firs Quarry Shaft A3 Vinegar Down Quarry Air Shaft Firs Quarry Shaft B1 Firs Quarry Shaft D2 Firs Quarry Shaft B2 Stonehouse Quarry West Firs Quarry Shaft A1 Kelks Quarry Location Kelks Quarry Shaft Firs Quarry Shaft H1 Wilk's Quarry Firs Field - Memorial Shaft Firs Quarry Shaft I2 Firs Quarry Shaft I5 Coxe's Vertical Shaft Quarry Firs Quarry Shaft CC4 Firs Quarry - Hopecot Firs Quarry Shaft H2 Firs Quarry Shaft C1 Firs Quarry Shaft 5316 Firs Quarry - Arched Shaft Firs Quarry Shaft 4097 Firs Quarry Shaft F1 Firs Quarry - Hadley Shaft Stonehouse Quarry North Firs Quarry - Hadley Arms Entrance
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Combe Down, Bath.
| NGR: | ST 75785 62224 |
| WGS84: | 51.35856, -2.34916 |
| Length: | Not recorded |
| Depth: | Not recorded |
| Altitude: | 158 m |
| Tags: | Mine, Shaft, Lost |
| Registry: | wbc |
This shaft is shown on a plan (figure 9.2) in 'Finished Labour of a Thousand Hands': The Archaeology of the Combe Down Stone Mines, Bath, Somerset published in 2011. The shaft is not shown on the 25 inch Ordnance Survey maps of 1873-1888 (South West England) or the 25 inch Ordnance Survey maps of 1892-1914.
The shaft is lost under the front garden of 1 Byfield Buildings.
Alternative Names: Byfield Mine, Firs Quarry, Firs Mine
Notes: The shaft was not accessed by the Oxford Archaeologistsunderground but they observed that the shaft was vertical and lined with large ashlar cut blocks of Bath Stone.
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