Charterhouse, Priddy, Mendip, Somerset, England, UKi
Regional Level Types | |
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Charterhouse | Village |
Priddy | Civil Parish |
Mendip | Group of Divisions |
Somerset | County |
England | Constituent Country |
UK | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
51° 17' 44'' North , 2° 42' 41'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
UK National Grid Reference:
ST504555
Type:
Köppen climate type:
Nearest Settlements:
Place | Population | Distance |
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Blagdon | 1,001 (2017) | 3.5km |
Ubley | 331 (2017) | 3.7km |
Compton Martin | 508 (2017) | 4.2km |
Bradley Cross | 3,000 (2018) | 4.3km |
Burrington | 237 (2017) | 4.5km |
Mindat Locality ID:
224970
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:224970:7
GUID (UUID V4):
e251fd7b-51e0-423d-b60e-36c36169fa44
Other Languages:
French:
Charterhouse, Priddy, Mendip, Somerset, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni
Dutch:
Charterhouse, Priddy, Mendip, Somerset, Engeland, Verenigd Koninkrijk
Polish:
Charterhouse, Priddy, Mendip, Somerset, Anglia, Wielka Brytania
This covers the open workings known as Ubley's and Blackmoor Rakes, the underground workings known as Grebe Swallet Mine and the smelting works at Blackmoor and Velvet Bottom.
Mining probably began here during the iron age but became an industry within a few years of the arrival of the Romans with archaeological evidence dating their occupation at the site from 49 CE.
The mineralization occurs as veins of lose rock, clay and calcite 'spar' containing stones, granules and intergrowths of galena within fissures that follow the structures in the resistant Carboniferous limestones but pinch out not deeper than 50m below surface.
The open works were exhausted by around 1300.
In the late 1700s Cornish Miners began working undergroud but soon found that there was no deep ore. Instead they reworked spoil and slag which contained up to 55% lead by weight with 2 smelters at Velvet Bottom and later Blackmoor with a workforce of up to 300.
The mine finally closed in 1885.
The site contains many buddles, open works, glassy slag tips and the remains of condensing flues at Blackmoor. However, the area appears to be barren for minerals due to the ease of initial extraction and the efficient reworking.
The BGS have several online documents with plans of the site.
Select Mineral List Type
Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsGallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates | |||
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ⓘ | Calcite | 5.AB.05 | CaCO3 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
C | Carbon | |
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C | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
O | Oxygen | |
O | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
Ca | Calcium | |
Ca | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
Other Databases
Wikipedia: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charterhouse,_Somerset |
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Wikidata ID: | Q5086874 |
GeoNames ID: | 6619736 |
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