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Greenburn copper mines and associated ore processing works

England
List entry 1020925
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1020925
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
20.08 hectares
Grid reference
NY 28878 01775
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Greenburn copper mines is a scheduled ancient monument located in Lancashire comprising the remains of copper mining and ore processing works. The site dates to the early modern period, representing an important phase in England's non-ferrous metal extraction history when domestic copper production was being developed to reduce reliance on imported ore. The physical remains include shafts, spoil heaps, and associated processing structures that reflect the technological approaches employed in early copper smelting and refining operations. The monument survives as evidence of industrial activity predating the large-scale mining operations of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Greenburn copper mines and associated ore processing works is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020925. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Greenburn copper mines and associated ore processing works?

Greenburn copper mines is a scheduled ancient monument located in Lancashire comprising the remains of copper mining and ore processing works.

Who is responsible for protecting Greenburn copper mines and associated ore processing works?

Greenburn copper mines and associated ore processing works 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 1020925.

What other scheduled monuments are near Greenburn copper mines and associated ore processing works?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Roman road in Wrynose Bottom (1.2 km), Long Intakes medieval dispersed settlement and associated kiln 370m south of Fell Foot (1.3 km), Coniston copper mines (3.1 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
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Roman road in Wrynose Bottom
1.2 km
Long Intakes medieval dispersed settlement and associated kiln 370m south of Fell Foot
1.3 km
Coniston copper mines
3.1 km
Yewdale lime kiln 380m south west of Low Yewdale
3.9 km
Cairns on Foul Scrow
4 km
Roman road from Wrynose Bottom to Hardknott Ford
4.2 km
Cairns and enclosure on The Rigg, Banishead
5.9 km
Round cairn, 460m south west of Thompson Ground
6.3 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Greenburn copper mines and associated ore processing works

Greenburn copper mines and associated ore processing works stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Ordovician, bedrock that formed in the Ordovician. The rock here is mafic tuff.

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