Any East Anglian Folks In The House?

Well, technically Northants is East Midlands, and Cambs is East Anglia. So I am about 1 mile inside East Midlands...

There are a lot of interesting mines in the East Midlands.

Chris.
 
Apart from a chalk mine near Norwich that got sealed up due to hydrogen Sulphide issues, what's underground in East Anglia?
I thought I was cursed in Essex but East Anglia can't be that much better if you mean Cambridgeshire Norfolk and Suffolk? give or take some chalk pits and that fraudulent coal mine at Linton (outside Cambridge) I think we discussed once on UKCaving ;) Unless you mean man made structures (also good for a look)
 
The key word in the mine is grave & a word Alex said , you put these together and find the mine’s name !


Grim”s grave
 
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I'm Cambridgeshire, there was one underground mine in Cambridgeshire I was aware of but not sure access is still possible. Coprolite mining was I think mainly on the surface although I have heard some pits were dug around Bassingbourne area.
 
BertyBasset said:
Don't you have some top secret dinosaur dung mines down there?
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Not sure they're top secret, came to my attention while searching for Essex mines as some Red Crag formation sneaks into the North East corner of Essex, but AFAIK it was surface working outcrop on low seaside cliff area and only really worked in Suffolk. Ipswich even has a street called Coprolite Street.

Unless those are the ones they want me to know about, and the miles of vast Suffolk cavern system are kept ultra secret from people like me ;)
 
Flint mines, if you think about it, are where miners from these islands probably first learnt the hard way about the stability of ground and how much can be dug away without causing the ground to move! The whole of the British mining industry owes it to prehistoric miners from this area for their brave endeavours. Of course, Sussex had flint mines long before East Anglia!
 
"In most cases the coprolites had to be dug out from between 3 and 6 metres. Toolsranged from simple shovels, pick axes and crowbars to more extensive workings withplanks and even tramways to ship the material excavated. At Bassingbourn a shaft wasdug and the material brought up by steam power. However, most mining was open castand even at Bassingbourn they soon returned to more conventional methods as theseams were not very thick."

https://www.meldrethhistory.org.uk/documents/The_Coprolite_Industry_in_South_East_Cambridgeshire.pdf

I've never quite been able to locate the site of the shaft.
 
Ttxela said:
"In most cases the coprolites had to be dug out from between 3 and 6 metres. Toolsranged from simple shovels, pick axes and crowbars to more extensive workings withplanks and even tramways to ship the material excavated. At Bassingbourn a shaft wasdug and the material brought up by steam power. However, most mining was open castand even at Bassingbourn they soon returned to more conventional methods as theseams were not very thick."

https://www.meldrethhistory.org.uk/documents/The_Coprolite_Industry_in_South_East_Cambridgeshire.pdf

I've never quite been able to locate the site of the shaft.
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mining turds seems like such a crazy venture that it's almost unbelievable, thank you for that link!
 
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