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Woman buried 100 years after murder. Mail on Sunday, 15 March 2020
This written up in Caves of Gower:
All Slades Mine, Bishopston
NGR SS 58536 87470 A 0 m L
This is located on the east side of Brandy Cove at the top of the cobble storm beach. The site is best approached via the coastal footpath from Caswell Bay. This is a drainage adit driven from the All Slade Mine to drain the workings into Brandy Cove. The entrance is boarded and gated to protect it from storms and locked to avoid the general public entering this disused mine.
This was an adit to the sea from the All Slade, Hareslade or Bishopston Mine which was last worked for lead in the mid 19th century, probably until 1854. The mine is reputed to have been worked in Mediaeval or even Roman times. In the past several shafts have been noted in the little valley, but traces of adit and shafts appear to have disappeared, probably filled in during the installation of a sewage outfall pipe. A shaft was still open in 1961 (NGR SS 5863 8753). For in that year the remains of a murdered woman were discovered in a shaft. She has disappeared in 1919.
This written up in Caves of Gower:
All Slades Mine, Bishopston
NGR SS 58536 87470 A 0 m L
This is located on the east side of Brandy Cove at the top of the cobble storm beach. The site is best approached via the coastal footpath from Caswell Bay. This is a drainage adit driven from the All Slade Mine to drain the workings into Brandy Cove. The entrance is boarded and gated to protect it from storms and locked to avoid the general public entering this disused mine.
This was an adit to the sea from the All Slade, Hareslade or Bishopston Mine which was last worked for lead in the mid 19th century, probably until 1854. The mine is reputed to have been worked in Mediaeval or even Roman times. In the past several shafts have been noted in the little valley, but traces of adit and shafts appear to have disappeared, probably filled in during the installation of a sewage outfall pipe. A shaft was still open in 1961 (NGR SS 5863 8753). For in that year the remains of a murdered woman were discovered in a shaft. She has disappeared in 1919.
