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THE PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY

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Engine Vein

Engine Vein has been worked since the Bronze Age. It was last worked in the late nineteenth century. It exhibits a wide variety of interesting geology.  

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Surface and entrance passage
Pot Shaft and the Roman workings
Underground workings
Blue Shaft and the Hough Level

Surface and entrance passage
Engine Vein surface	Engine Vein in winter	Bronze Age workings	Bronze Age workings viewed from below
Digging Balloon Shaft	Digging Ring Shaft	Digging Bear Pit - the winch	Digging Bear Pit
The Vein concreted over after cleaning off the material that had built up over the years	New entrance (before enlarging)	Inside the entrance passage	Azurite spheres near the entrance
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Pot Shaft and the Roman workings
Pot Shaft archaeological dig	Pot Shaft archaeological dig with DCC members working on it	The days the coins were found	The Roman coins
The Roman level before excavation	The Roman level after excavation	The Roman level after excavation looking back into the main passage	Pot Shaft from below
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Underground workings
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Steps placed in the mine to make easier access to the Roman gallery	Under the concrete	Under the concrete - the white is fungus	Under the concrete capping. Semi-pillars on the right support the roof. The wooden steps are behind the figure.
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Timbering in the main passage	Timbering in the main passage	Starting down the steps from the foot of the ramp, heading for the main chamber	At the start of the bridge
Approaching the bridge	On the bridge	Visitors on the bridge	Shotholes in the hanging wall beyond the bridge
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Beyond the bridge	The high level bridge at Bear Pit	Old workings on the vein	In the main chamber, looking east towards the bridge and the entrance
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The archway into the chamber at the west end of the mine. The ladders leads up to some passages close to the surface	Ripple Roof Chamber	A low crawl at the top end of the mine	West End extension
West End extension	Digging Blue Shaft passage	Digging Blue Shaft passage - laying the railway	Digging Blue Shaft passage
Digging Blue Shaft passage	Fault in Blue Shaft passage	The fault in Blue Shaft passage - this is the smooth wall on the right	Top of Bear Pit
The coffin level above Blue Shaft	A person giving scale to the coffin level	Crawling in top level of mine, close to the surface	In the top level of mine
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Blue Shaft and the Hough Level
Blue Shaft	Part of the ladder way in Blue Shaft	Blue Shaft	Blue Shaft
Digging Balloon passage	Tipping down Bear Pit
Bear Pit ore chute	Bear Pit ore chute	The junction in Hough level	Ring Shaft ore chute
Ring Shaft ore chute	Clay formation in Ring Shaft passage	The Boat	Graffiti near the Boat
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