Caplecleugh Low Level

aka Peatstack Hill, Brigal Burn, or Dowgang

Lead and Zinc Mine
Worked until 1881

Jan 1st, 2024 from NMRS by Buddle-Bot

Sep 24th, 2024 by Heb



horse level1
Northern Pennines
Nenthead
54.7858276, -2.3420579
NY 7810 4349
Open Access
444m
#17,200


1859-1862 Robert Walton & Co. 1863-1866 L. Madgin & Co. 1870-1871 John P. Walton & Co. 1872 Jos. Dinning 1873-1878 Alston Moor Mining Co. 1879-1881 London Lead Company


Publications (34)

  • (1913); Lead Mines & Works of the Vielle Montagne Zinc Company; 8 pages
  • (1983); CATMHS - Trip Report 18 06 - Nenthead Mines; 1 pages
  • (1987); CATMHS - Newsletter 018-December; 38 pages
  • (1990); CATMHS - Newsletter 027-September; 25 pages
  • (1991); Caplecleugh Bog Shaft. Descent by WCMRG; 4 pages
  • (1991); CATMHS - Newsletter 030-July; 20 pages
  • (1994); CATMHS - Newsletter 037-January; 29 pages
  • (2000); CATMHS - Newsletter 062-December; 38 pages
  • (2002); CATMHS - Newsletter 066-January; 36 pages
  • (2002); CATMHS - Newsletter 068-July; 23 pages
  • (2008); CATMHS - Newsletter 090-February; 42 pages
  • (2010); CATMHS - Newsletter 101-November; 44 pages
  • (2016); CATMHS - Newsletter 124-August; 45 pages
  • BGS - Mine Plans (large, zoomable) - Nenthead - Coalcleugh (west Sheet).; 1 pages
  • Bird, R.H., (1977); Yesterday's Golcondas: notable British metal mines; p.117; Moorland Publishing; 0903485370
  • Critchley, Martin F. (1984); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 09-1 Sum - History and Workings of the Nenthead Mines, Cumbria, The; 50 pages (1-50)
  • Fairbairn, R.A.; NMRS (1993); British Mining 47 - Mines of Alston Moor, The; ISBN 0901450 40 5; pp.18-20,67,72-73,75-80,124,126,172.
  • Fellows, Roy (2002); Caplecleugh Mine Explorerd; 17 pages
  • Fellows, Roy; Caplecleugh Mine-Archers Rise; 1 pages
  • Fellows, Roy; Caplecleugh Mine; 1 pages
  • McAnelly, David (transcribed) (2012); London Lead Company Northern Mines Report Book 1806 to 1820; 135 pages
  • NMRS; British Mining 100 - Memoirs 2015; pp.42-43.
  • NMRS; British Mining 11 - Memoirs 1979; p.7.
  • NMRS; British Mining 19 - Memoirs 1980-1982; p.49.
  • NMRS; British Mining 5 - Memoirs 1977; pp.27,35-36,41-42.
  • NMRS; British Mining 75 - Memoirs 2004; pp.72-74.
  • NMRS; Memoirs 1969; pp.44-45.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Aug/1980; p.6.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Feb/1983; p.6.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Feb/1992; p.9.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Feb/1997; pp.6-7.
  • NMRS; Newsletter May/2002; pp.3-4.
  • NMRS; Newsletter May/2003; p.5.
  • Wallace, William (1861); Deposition of Lead Ore In Veins; Alston Moor; 331 pages


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