Potential at the bottom of the Neil Moss shaft

[mikem]

virtually all of which seemed to be evenly split between the Newcastle area and what is now S Yorkshire.

Both major coal mining areas...

Unfortunately the peak of lead mining was well before written records of workers were regularly kept.

 

[Mrs Trellis]

Thanks you two. Afaik the I is AI (passage) is Iggo hence the interest.

 

[Pitlamp]

Just going back to the original question, isn't it possible that the tiny shaft is just a vertical oxbow of the kind which aren't uncommon in phreatic passages? If so, it'd not be surprising if it just re-entered the main development (i.e. Moss Chamber) somewhere under the rubble floor (under the flowstone).

I'd have thought there might be better places to go hunting for all that missing cave. That suggestion of Middle Bank Pot has a lot going for it.

 

[SamT]

Charlotte Bronte got the name for her Jane Eyre from the Hope Valley when she stayed at Hathersage.

The miner's family name Iggo intrigues me. Sam may know some of his contemporaries still having this name.

Indeed I do.. went to school with a David Iggo. A local from Castleton. Moose might remember him too.

 

[T pot 2]

Do you mean Iddo?

 

[mikem]

Definitely still people with Iggo surname in Castleton.