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Brow Pit mine shaft, gin circle, spoil heap and tramway is a scheduled ancient monument comprising the physical remains of lead mining activity in Yorkshire. The site consists of an extractive complex featuring a mine shaft served by a gin circle (the circular base where a horse-powered winding engine operated), associated spoil heaps, and a tramway for transporting ore or waste material. These features date from the post-medieval period, reflecting the intensification of lead mining in the Pennines during the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. The monument preserves evidence of the mechanical and infrastructural systems employed in lead extraction during this period of industrial development.
Brow Pit mine shaft, gin circle, spoil heap and tramway, 270m south west of Catherine Slack Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017568. View the official record →
Brow Pit mine shaft, gin circle, spoil heap and tramway is a scheduled ancient monument comprising the physical remains of lead mining activity in Yorkshire.
Brow Pit mine shaft, gin circle, spoil heap and tramway, 270m south west of Catherine Slack Farm is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1017568.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including The gibbet platform (3.2 km), Ventilation chimney and furnace house 260m south of Park Farm (3.3 km), Late prehistoric enclosed settlement 350m south west of Goose Clough at Hunter Hill, Ovenden (3.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Brow Pit mine shaft, gin circle, spoil heap and tramway, 270m south west of Catherine Slack Farm's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Brow Pit mine shaft, gin circle, spoil heap and tramway, 270m south west of Catherine Slack Farm stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.