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mark220gsiturbo1

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We're planning to go ere 2moro after jug holes but not sure we're it is, went looking last year but couldn't find it. I know how to get to the quarry but that's it, we're exactly in there is the entrance?

 
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zomjon

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Hi Mark, as you enter the quarry, you'll notice that at the far end there's a large collapsed section, head through the quarry to there and climb up on left side - once under roof, clamber up large slab and enter sandy rift on far side, follow it down, couple of short climbs and follow well worn path - there is definitely a video of walk in on Youtube, as I put one on myself - enjoy, there's lots to see
 
Lampwick

Lampwick

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You could take a wire brush and have a go at scrubbing some of the spray-painted blobs we missed at the last clean-up session.  (y)
 
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Coronasv

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Hi all,
Had a trip down Masson Mine last sunday. What a great place.

We got to Beck Shaft and headed straight on past the impressive 10ft plus stack of deads on the left to a lake and a dead end.

We then took the right turn from Beck past the cave pearls and eventually came to a small porthole which led back into the streamway and into an upward trending small (3ft round) tube? I mistakenly thought this was the link to Jant/Youds but looking at other posts now that doesnt seem possible.

We will definitely be back but were hoping to do a through trip.

Does this go or is it just another worked vein?  Anyone got a survey they're willing to share?
 
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AR

Well-known member
There is a better survey available, which is the one published in PDMHS bulletin 8.2 but this has the downside that it was done prior to the opencasting so it shows a lot of passage that no longer exists,sadly including the link from Masson to Gentlewomans. There is a copy of the relevant article from the bulletin available online at http://www.aditnow.co.uk/documents/Ringing-Rake-and-Masson-Sough-Lead-Mine/RingRake-and-Masson.pdf the survey is on p28.

BTW, Beck Shaft is the one you can see the remains of in the opencast face, by your description I think you were at Dale Shaft.
 
martinm

martinm

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AR said:
There is a better survey available, which is the one published in PDMHS bulletin 8.2 but this has the downside that it was done prior to the opencasting so it shows a lot of passage that no longer exists,sadly including the link from Masson to Gentlewomans. There is a copy of the relevant article from the bulletin available online at http://www.aditnow.co.uk/documents/Ringing-Rake-and-Masson-Sough-Lead-Mine/RingRake-and-Masson.pdf the survey is on p28.

BTW, Beck Shaft is the one you can see the remains of in the opencast face, by your description I think you were at Dale Shaft.
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Excellent, though it needs optimising/posterising. etc. (Lots of artifacts, looks like a Jpeg image.) Any chance of using it in the monitoring form? If so, I can then annotate it with the features of interest off the current one, etc...

TIA, Mel.
 
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AR

Well-known member
I've got a much better quality one scanned off the original bulletin article though I need to stitch it together and grey out the lost passages. As for re-use, I'd have to ask Roger Flindall about that.
 
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Coronasv

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AR said:
BTW, Beck Shaft is the one you can see the remains of in the opencast face, by your description I think you were at Dale Shaft.
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Thats great, i can finally orientate myself now and yes you were right we were at Dale Shaft.  We managed to explore most of the stuff south of there also encountered a number of other shafts including the one close to the gate to the showcave.

Shame so much has disappeared but still plenty left to explore.
 
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History Trog

Member
Hello Adam,
Yes, it would be fine by me to reuse our survey of the Masson system in the way that you suggest providing the original survey acknowledgments appear on it. I am sure that Andy Hayes would not have any objection either.
The copy of our Masson Survey posted on the link quoted earlier in this thread was put on the Internet without anyone?s permission which is very annoying when my contact details are readily available. At the time I talked it over with Lynn Willies but he counselled just letting it pass rather than getting shirty about it.

 
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