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Middle Engine Pit is a post-medieval industrial site located in Somerset, England, associated with the region's mining heritage. The site represents the mechanical infrastructure of tin or copper extraction, typical of the extensive mining operations that characterised Somerset during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The pit itself would have housed pumping or hauling machinery essential to deep mining operations, reflecting the technological innovations that enabled mineral extraction at greater depths than earlier methods permitted. As a scheduled monument, it preserves evidence of the county's significant contribution to English industrial development during the early modern period.
Middle Engine Pit is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004533. View the official record →
Middle Engine Pit is a post-medieval industrial site located in Somerset, England, associated with the region's mining heritage. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1004533.
Middle Engine Pit 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 1004533.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Long barrow 350m south-west of Cornerpool Farm (6.4 km), Two confluent bowl barrows on Felton Hill (6.8 km), Large univallate hillfort on Cadbury Hill (6.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Middle Engine Pit '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.
Middle Engine Pit stands on South Wales Upper Coal Measures Formation, bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.