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Force Crag mines and barytes mill and a prehistoric cairnfield

England
List entry 1019748
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1019748
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
35.56 hectares
Grid reference
NY 19648 21234
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Force Crag mines and barytes mill is a complex of mineral workings and associated structures located in Cumberland in the English Lake District. The site comprises evidence of lead and zinc mining operations alongside a barytes mill, reflecting the industrial exploitation of the fell during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The monument also encompasses a prehistoric cairnfield, indicating human activity and land use in the area during the Bronze Age or earlier periods. The survival of both the industrial remains and the prehistoric archaeological features within the same landscape demonstrates the palimpsestic nature of the site's long-term human occupation and use.

Force Crag mines and barytes mill and a prehistoric cairnfield is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019748. View the official record →

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What is Force Crag mines and barytes mill and a prehistoric cairnfield?

Force Crag mines and barytes mill is a complex of mineral workings and associated structures located in Cumberland in the English Lake District. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019748.

Who is responsible for protecting Force Crag mines and barytes mill and a prehistoric cairnfield?

Force Crag mines and barytes mill and a prehistoric cairnfield 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 1019748.

What other scheduled monuments are near Force Crag mines and barytes mill and a prehistoric cairnfield?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Goldscope copper and lead mines and remains of associated dressing floors, stamp mill, dressing mill, reservoir and leats (4.2 km), Shieling settlement close to the mouth of Scale Beck (5.7 km), St Thomas' Work Elizabethan copper mine 320m north west of Grey Buttress (5.9 km).

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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
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Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
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LiDAR
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Goldscope copper and lead mines and remains of associated dressing floors, stamp mill, dressing mill, reservoir and leats
4.2 km
Shieling settlement close to the mouth of Scale Beck
5.7 km
St Thomas' Work Elizabethan copper mine 320m north west of Grey Buttress
5.9 km
Romano-British farmstead 200m west of Lambing Knott
5.9 km
Long Work 16th and 17th century copper mines, 400m north west of Waterfall Buttress
6.1 km
Dale Head copper mine dressing floors and associated buildings 400m north of Dale Head
6.3 km
Dale Head copper mine 300m north east of Dale Head
6.6 km
Slight univallate hillfort on Castle Crag
7.6 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Force Crag mines and barytes mill and a prehistoric cairnfield

Force Crag mines and barytes mill and a prehistoric cairnfield stands on Ordovician Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Ordovician. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.

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