Engine Vein


Copper Mine

Worked from Bronze Age? to 1877

Jan 1st, 2024 from Peak by Buddle-Bot



Stoke on Trent & Cheshire
Alderley Edge
53.294003, -2.210896
SJ 8604 7747
Private Land
188m
#3,266


Open workings now covered.



DCC



Publications (8)

  • (1925); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XXX - Copper Ores: Midlands, Lake District & N Wales; 102 pages
  • (1985); CATMHS - Newsletter 008; 23 pages
  • Barnatt, John (1999); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 14-2 Win - Prehistoric and Roman Mining in the Peak District - Present Knowledge and Future Research; 12 pages (19-30)
  • Barnatt, John and Worthington, Terry (2009); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 17-3 Sum - Metal Mines through Time; 124 pages (1-124)
  • Barnatt, Johna and Haddon Thomas, Garth (1998); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 13-5 Sum - Prehistoric Mining at Ecton, Staffordshire - A Dated Antler Tool and its Context; 7 pages (72-78)
  • Carlon, Chris J., Dibben, Nigel J. (2012); Alderley Edge Mines, The; pp. 92-102
  • Gale, David (1989); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 10-5 - Evidence of Ancient Copper Mining at Engine Vein, Alderley Edge; 8 pages (266-273)
  • Timberlake, Simon (2001); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 14-6 Win - How Old is the Owld Man - Discovering Ancient Mines; 7 pages (54-60)


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