Eagle Crag Levels

aka Grisedale

Lead Mine
Worked from 16C to c1880

Jan 1st, 2024 from NMRS by Buddle-Bot

Apr 16th, 2025 by BertyBasset


Lake District
Patterdale
54.5194359, -2.9959249
NY 3563 1425
Open Access
460m
#15,746

Worked E-W Eagle Crag vein. Major workings at Eagle Crag. About 10 levels. A branch of the vein - Clay Vein has also been worked.

Hand working indicate Elizabethan origin. Beleived to have been worked with Ruthwaite Lodge Mine

  • 1784-1807 John Walker & John Edmundson
  • 1862-? Jacob Johnston & John Pattinson
  • 1872-c1880 Greenside Company

Publications (16)

  • (1921); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XXII - Lead & Zinc: Lake District; 65 pages
  • (1982); CATMHS - Newsletter 002; 33 pages
  • (1984); CATMHS - Newsletter 007; 25 pages
  • (1986); CATMHS - Newsletter 012; 38 pages
  • (1986); CATMHS - Newsletter 013; 18 pages
  • (1986); CATMHS - Trip Report 13 04 - Eagle Crag Mine; 2 pages
  • (1990); CATMHS - Newsletter 026-April; 24 pages
  • (2004); CATMHS - Newsletter 077-November; 25 pages
  • (2010); CATMHS - Newsletter 098-February; 38 pages
  • (2015); CATMHS - Newsletter 119-May; 35 pages
  • (2016); CATMHS - Newsletter 123-May; 43 pages
  • (2017); CATMHS - Newsletter 127-May; 45 pages
  • (2018); CATMHS - Newsletter 131-May; 59 pages
  • (2020); CATMHS - Newsletter 141-November; 40 pages
  • Adams, John (2nd Ed 1995); Mines of the Lake District Fells; pp. 132
  • Joseph Yelloly Watson (1843); Compendium of British Mining, with Statistical Notices… & Glossary; 97 pages

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