Year of publication 1990 - Fell and Rock Climbing Club

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40 CONISTON COPPER MINES REDISCOVEREDBelman Hole Vein above Top Level. The most interesting features ofthe day were the two jackrolls - one still in situ. We therefore declaredthis to be "The Day of the JackroU"! An interesting coincidence lies inthe fact that the four members who made these discoveries were thesame four who discovered Levers Water Mine two years previously.Two days later a team of six returned to investigate the stopes. It wasa wet day and a lot of water cascaded down the shaft. A dig was startedat the blocked stope at the SW end of the crosscut. We later found outthat this resulted in the bottom of the "crater" subsiding at the surface.some 14 metres above. The rubble slope at the NE end of the crosscutwas descended and found to be blocked at the bottom with loose stones.Wc then decided to abseil down the stope with the stemples in.Twenty-two metres down landed us on the four-way junction on TopLevel, where tunnel T4 and T5 intersect (see Plan No.2). Having foundthis new connection with Top Level, it was easy then to reach the majorblockage on the main haulage level (Tunnel Tl). which we now guessedcoincided with the choke of stone at the bottom of our newly discoveredstope at the NE end of the Belman Hole Crosscut. We put our theory tothe test by sending members to both sites and found we were able tocommunicate quite clearly through the collapse.This was an important discovery. We now knew there was not a lotbetween us and a way into the extensive workings on the inner reachesof Top Level, which had evaded us for so long, but of which we werefully aware from old mine plans. Before we left the workings that day inorder to draw up plans for a dig into Top Level Extension, one membergained entry, with difficulty, into the tunnel previously mentioned, in thesame stope above the dig site (see Cross Section No.5). It was guardedby a loose wall of waste rock which was removed. The tunnel waspartially choked, but at the end. about 7 metres along, a very colourfulsquare cut shaft rose up about 10 metres through solid rock with watertrickling down. It could not be climbed without the aid of a "maypole",but there appeared to be a tunnel running off at the top in a NWdirection, which would take it beneath Levers Water. We were alreadyat a point beneath the shore of the Tarn. This was an exciting revelation.Were we on the verge of discovering the legendary oak plugs, sealing thebottom of the Tarn! (See reference to this in Part II.) We left the minethat day with the prospect of exciting discoveries ahead.On the 11th January 1987, eight members of Cumbria Amenity Trustreturned laden with timber and other equipment to commence the dig atthe bottom of the rubble slope and to pin back the slope itself into aseries of steps upon which the loose stone from below could be stacked.As the dig got deeper the hanging wall of rock was held back with
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126 THE MEET REPORTAlter half an ho
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THE LIBRARYGeorge WatkinsWhen 1 suc
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IN MEMORIAMF. Alcock 1947-1989W. Be
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132 IN MEMORIAMwhich took him into
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134 IN MEMORIAMRoman Wall. Indeed,
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136 INMEMORIAMMozart's "Ave Verum"
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138 INMEMORIAMthree volumes, as it
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140 IN MEMORIAMhis numerous article
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142 TN MEMORIAMFRANCES RONA WALLACE
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144 IN MEMORIAMexceptional degree o
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