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\'Finger\' spoil tips | |
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Hooten Wheals (Hexworthy Mine), Two Bridges, Southern Dartmoor, Dartmoor & Teign Valley District, Devon, England, UK 3 tips. The 2 on the right are just tips. The one on the left clearly has a tram track running along the top of it, the depressions where the rails sat are clearly visible in a low early morning light. It may also have carried a small leat as there is a broken concrete channel beside the building ruin which must have been fed from ... |
| © Chris Popham | Photo ID: 128752 View Count: 59 |
1905 Processing Plant | |
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Hooten Wheals (Hexworthy Mine), Two Bridges, Southern Dartmoor, Dartmoor & Teign Valley District, Devon, England, UK An early morning photo picking out some of the details. Buddles in the foreground, first level for jigging tables, top level for stamps. The bolts in the floor of the top level for fixing the stamps are just about discernable in this photo. Both levels have what look like steps in the face of the wall, they're not, I believe these were simply to ... |
| © Chris Popham | Photo ID: 128959 View Count: 82 |
Bob Pit | |
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Hooten Wheals (Hexworthy Mine), Two Bridges, Southern Dartmoor, Dartmoor & Teign Valley District, Devon, England, UK A bob pit and immediately beyond it is the head of Low's shaft and the pile of stones almost on the horizon mark the engine house. Chris Popham, July 2007 |
| © Chris Popham | Photo ID: 128756 View Count: 86 |
Buddles | |
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Hooten Wheals (Hexworthy Mine), Two Bridges, Southern Dartmoor, Dartmoor & Teign Valley District, Devon, England, UK The ruined mine buildings. 2 buddle pits in the foreground, the left one has the remains of a dynamo armature lying in it. The concrete platform house the jigging apparatus the 3 iron uprights were roof supports. The section of wall on the left supported a tramway and has the remains of a water race behind it. The spoil heap on the horizon is just ... |
| © Chris Popham | Photo ID: 124946 View Count: 159 |
Buddles | |
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Hooten Wheals (Hexworthy Mine), Two Bridges, Southern Dartmoor, Dartmoor & Teign Valley District, Devon, England, UK 2 buddles. The lump in the middle of the one on the left is the metal foot of the central pillar that would have stood in the buddle, an armature shaft from a dynamo is in the right buddle. The concrete floor is about 5 feet above the buddles and had jigging tables on it and is set with numerous 1/2 inch thick fixing bolts. The grass just ... |
| © Chris Popham | Photo ID: 128760 View Count: 89 |
Hensroost | |
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Hooten Wheals (Hexworthy Mine), Two Bridges, Southern Dartmoor, Dartmoor & Teign Valley District, Devon, England, UK The mine offices across the O Brook from Hooten Wheals main site. Another victim of the military preparations for the D-Day landings. Chris Popham, July 2007 |
| © Chris Popham | Photo ID: 128753 View Count: 68 |
Launder Bank | |
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Hooten Wheals (Hexworthy Mine), Two Bridges, Southern Dartmoor, Dartmoor & Teign Valley District, Devon, England, UK A leat cuts around the hillside to the left of this bank and would have then run along the top in a raised launder to feed the waterwheel. The wheel was about the same distance from the end of this bank as the bank is long. Chris Popham, July 2007 |
| © Chris Popham | Photo ID: 128754 View Count: 56 |
O Brook | |
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Hooten Wheals (Hexworthy Mine), Two Bridges, Southern Dartmoor, Dartmoor & Teign Valley District, Devon, England, UK The O Brook streaming works in the foreground and Hooten Wheals tips beyond. Chris Popham, July 2007 |
| © Chris Popham | Photo ID: 128761 View Count: 71 |
Openworks | |
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Hooten Wheals (Hexworthy Mine), Two Bridges, Southern Dartmoor, Dartmoor & Teign Valley District, Devon, England, UK From the shaft this open works runs south up the hillside. The wire marks another shaft where another openworks crosses at 90 degrees. Chris Popham, July 2007 |
| © Chris Popham | Photo ID: 128759 View Count: 75 |
Shaft | |
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Hooten Wheals (Hexworthy Mine), Two Bridges, Southern Dartmoor, Dartmoor & Teign Valley District, Devon, England, UK The bob pit seen in one of the other photos is just on the left of this. There is a section of timber and the rocks in the depression mark the shaft head. Chris Popham, July 2007 |
| © Chris Popham | Photo ID: 128757 View Count: 74 |
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