Bevas Moor
aka Clifton, Wheal or Old East Tywarnhayle
Lead, Zinc, and Copper Mine
Worked from 1840s
Jan 1st, 2024 from RF by Buddle-Bot
Nov 24th, 2024 by aricooperdavis
Cornwall | |
St. Agnes | |
50.2970695, -5.1858549 | |
SW 7320 4898 | |
Private Land | |
113m | |
#7,667 |
On the West side of Trevellas Combe (historically spelled “Trevallas Combe”), at Wheal Butson Farm.
Dines gives details of a number of shafts and adits. Of these traces are still visible - all the shafts clwyd capped, and likely blocked adits evidenced by flows of water.
Likely mined Copper, and perhaps also Zinc and Lead.
Dines:
Also called East Tywarnhayle (A.M. R 4, dated 1851), this mine is on the west side of Trevallas Coombe, opposite Burrow and Butson Mine (6-in. Corn. 56 Ν.Ε.) and worked the same lode, here coursing E. 15° N. and underlying 32° S.
Engine Shaft, 500 yds. E. by S. of Hurlingbarrow farm, is vertical to the 20-fm. Level and on the underlie to the 50-fm. below adit (12 fms.). At 115 yds. W. of Engine Shaft is Way’s, vertical to below adit and on the underlie to the 20-fm., and at 50 yds. N.E. is Thomas’s, vertical to below adit and on the underlie to the 11-fm. A third shaft, unnamed on the plan (A.M. R 45, dated 1851 and similar to R 4), 210 yds. E. by N. of Engine Shaft, is vertical to 10 fms. below the 20-fm. Level; there are also five adit shafts.
Adit Level commences near the stream and extends to 100 fms. W. of Engine Shaft, a total of 260 fms. There is only a short drive at the 11fm. - Level from the bottom of Thomas’s Shaft. The 20-fm. Level is in two parts, one extending for 45 fms. E. and 55 fms. W. of Engine Shaft, and the other for 8 fms . E. and 40 fms. W. of the unnamed shaft; the 35-fm. Level opens up the lode for 45 fms. E. and 55 fms . W. of Engine Shaft, and the 50-fm. for 25 fms. E. and W. There are three very small stopes on Adit Level, one just west of Way’s Shaft and the others on either side of Engine Shaft, and a fourth below the 11-fm. Level. Two vertical N.-S. crosscourses intersect the lode, respectively at 40 fms. and 110 fms. E. of Engine Shaft.
A separate working is from an adit that commences close to the stream 340 yds. E. of Engine Shaft and at 105 fms. S. by W. of its entrance meets a shaft on a lode that is driven on for 10 fms. W. to a crosscourse (the eastern one of the main workings).
Now, as of 2024, conveniently adjacent to the Goonbell to Chiverton section of the St Agnes to Threemilestone Saints Trail.
The land on which the shafts lie, above Roskarros, is private, however the remains of the drainage adit lie on common land by Brook View Barn.
External Links
Publications (1)
- Dines, Henry George (1956); BGS - Regional Memoirs - Metalliferous Mining Region of South West England Vol1, The; 567 pages
Related sites (4)
Thomas's Shaft - 39m
Engine Shaft - 51m
Way's Shaft - 163m
Adit - 255m
Butson, Wheal - 513m
Davey's Shaft - 549m
Cornwall, Wheal - 565m
Williams's Shaft - 573m
Quarry Shaft - 631m
United Mines North - 698m
Davey, Wheal - 731m
Engine Shaft - 779m
No.1 Shaft - 828m
Burrow, Wheal - 868m
Frederick, Wheal - 911m
Valley, Wheal - 1,042m
Liberty, Wheal - 1,269m
Nicholson's Shaft - 1,352m
Great West Kitty - 1,396m
Great West Chiverton - 1,432m
East Music, Wheal - 1,522m
Duchy, Wheal - 1,570m
Gooninnis - 1,739m
Trenithick Shaft - 1,780m
Silverwell and East Dns. - 1,816m
Trenithick Mine - 1,827m
Mithian, Wheal - 1,853m
Vottle, Wheal - 1,855m
Victoria, Wheal - 1,857m
Dorcas's Shaft - 1,867m
Engine Shaft - 1,919m
Vyvyan Perran, Wheal - 1,964m
Sunny Corner Shaft - 1,969m
New Kitty, Wheal - 1,990m
Livingstone Consols - 1,999m