Limepits Mine / West Ecton Mine. February - April 2010. The lower adit was mostly drained of water before these photos were taken. (Click on the thumbnails to see the full sized images.) The water was originally at least a foot deep.
Limepits Mine
Ed looking into the flooded shaft in the lower adit.
Rob looking back towards the entrance in the upper adit.
Marg, Rob, Ed and Pete ready to enter the lower adit.
Some tools/bolts near the flooded shaft.
Some of the Rimstone pools that can be seen now.
Straws forming on the roof of the lower adit.
A Rimstone pool formed half way up one wall of the lower adit.
The fenced-off engine shaft on top of the hill.
Approaching the dug-through collapse near the track on the way out.
Flowstone near the end of the upper adit.
The traverse line across the top of the sloping ore pipe near the main shaft.
The entrance to the upper adit.
Rimstone pools that can be seen now. These are near the one half way up the wall.
The lower entrance after the drainage pipe was installed in April.
The lower entrance after the ground above the drainage pipe was restored to a natural state.
You should be aware that Darfar (as in Darfar Bridge, Pot, etc.) is misspelt as Dafar on OS maps of a certain scale. On larger scaled (more detailed) maps it is correct as you can see on the excellent Magic web site. This map shows the correct spelling and this one the incorrect spelling. (Then of course there's Darfur, which is a place in Africa...)
