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Force Crag mines and barytes mill is a complex of extractive industrial remains and associated prehistoric monuments located in the Coledale valley, Cumberland. The site comprises nineteenth-century mining infrastructure for barytes extraction, including engine houses, mills, and processing facilities that reflect the expansion of mineral working during the Victorian period. Within and around this industrial landscape lie the remains of a prehistoric cairnfield, evidencing Bronze Age or Iron Age settlement and land use on the fells. The juxtaposition of prehistoric and industrial-era monuments at Force Crag illustrates successive phases of human exploitation and use of upland resources across millennia.
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 →
Force Crag mines and barytes mill is a complex of extractive industrial remains and associated prehistoric monuments located in the Coledale valley, Cumberland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019748.
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.
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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