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Slide 6
All of the lead has long since gone. This is the Wolfcleugh mine today – preserved for tourists to visit. It is a wild and beautiful place – grass has grown over the pit heaps.
Notes
There were lead workings here at various different times, starting in the Middle Ages. This shaft was open in the early nineteenth century, but closed in 1846. It was reopened in 1901-1912 and two more shafts sunk. In 1946 it was briefly reopened, but without much result.