Smallcleugh Mine

thehungrytroglobite

Well-known member
Hello,

Was wondering if someone who knows Smallcleugh Mine well could message me? Went there yesterday but failed to find the ballroom and would like to know how close we were. Also went down various other passages that I'd be interested to know more about!

A x
 

Mr Mike

Active member
You can download a plan from here:

https://www.aditnow.co.uk/Mines/Smallcleugh-Lead-Mine_3010/

There are more plans if your registered on there, but with the site being only partially up and running you might not be able to get to them. Or (pardon the punt), you could get one from here:

http://www.mineexplorer.org.uk/plans.htm
 

thehungrytroglobite

Well-known member
Thanks for these Mike. We used the plans from Aditnow but the writing on them was quite hard to read! We made it to wheel flats but that was as far as we got. From wheel flats we continued along a spacious crawl for a while until getting to a junction with a wooden stake. We explored both left and right at this junction but both ways just led to more junctions and we didn't want to venture off *too* far off the route we had been told about so turned around after a while in each direction. Not sure where the ballroom might have been in relevance to all of this, or if we were way out!
 

Mr Mike

Active member
Uhhhh, soooo close. Your going to kick yourself.

From the crawl exit, called George Hetherington's Crosscut (wooden stake), take the right, then the left at next junction and after maybe 200m you would have come to it, on your left.
 
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