The Mine was established or reopened in 1853 by an iron smelting company from South Wales. Initially, it focused on mining goethite/hematite, but this shifted to siderite at shallow depths. The discontinuous east-west lode structure, situated in Devonian slates, also contained sparse copper and rare bismuth mineralization. The peak production of iron ore was recorded in 1877, reaching 47,000 tons across all the Brendon Hill Iron mines. However, the mine ceased operations in 1883 due to competition from imports from Spain and the unsuitability of siderite as an ore. There was an unsuccessful attempt to revive operations in 1907. The mine’s dumps and collapsed stope workings are located in a forested area 500 yards northwest of a picnic site and 3 miles east-southeast of Wheddon Cross, a relatively new Somerset village dating back to the 1820s.#