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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 →
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.
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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