Two disused engine houses at Crowns Shaft, Botallack Tin Mine, on the North Coast of West Cornwall at Botallack - Area.
The Crowns Engine Houses of Botallack Tin Mine on the North Coast of West Cornwall at Botallack, Area, were used to house pumping engines and winding gear. Now restored, they are amongst only a few which have survived the numerous tin and copper mines which worked in West Penwith The mine was sometimes known as the submarine mine, as it's tunnels extended under the sea. The pumping engines kept water out of the mine workings and stopped them from flooding. The winding gear transported the miners from and to the surface to the mine workings and also brought the ore to the surface, where it was crushed and refined. The extraction of tin in Cornwall dates back to the Bronze Age, as tin was necessary to early Bronze. An early method of obtaining tin was from washed gravel taken from the streams. Underground mining for tin is thought to have started in the Sixteenth Century
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Location: Botallack Tin Mine, North Coast of West Cornwall, Near , Lands End, Cornwall, England, UK.
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