Special reports on the mineral resources of Great Britain . within the six-inch map, Somerset34 ; that to the east, and the one at Brockwell, withinSomerset 34 BRENDON HILLS These hills, which are situated about G miles south of Minehead,reach an elevation of from 1,200 to 1,400 ft. above the seaand extend in a direction bearing a littlo north of west. Thecrest of the upland is followed by a good road, and until recentlywas served by a mineral railway from Watchet, the mostconvenient point of approach. The ironstone-mines, all nowabandoned, occur at intervals along the crest of the hi
Special reports on the mineral resources of Great Britain . within the six-inch map, Somerset34 ; that to the east, and the one at Brockwell, withinSomerset 34 BRENDON HILLS These hills, which are situated about G miles south of Minehead,reach an elevation of from 1,200 to 1,400 ft. above the seaand extend in a direction bearing a littlo north of west. Thecrest of the upland is followed by a good road, and until recentlywas served by a mineral railway from Watchet, the mostconvenient point of approach. The ironstone-mines, all nowabandoned, occur at intervals along the crest of the hills forabout 7 miles, from Yeanon Mine in the east to Lancecombe inthe west (Fig. 4, p. 32). They lie in the Old Series one-inch Geological Map, Sheet 20;in the New Series one-inch Ordnance Sheet 294 (Dulverton), andin the six-inch maps Somerset 59 , 58 , 58 ,47 , and 46 ^ Rtport on Gfology of Cmnwall. Devon, and West Somerset (Mem. :), 1839, pp. 196-7,617 ; ako Mem. Oeol. Survey, vol. i, 18-46, p. 264. C2 32 INUKDDKD IKON ORES. •s a ^1^ 05 o ^ o 1: J a p O !» t- U o ^ e-s-^ c >, ?O 3} o t-^lod oio 1—1 rH 1-H , cc a^^l ^ eg ^: a) £ o ^ o fl ^-^ 2- A c: a> cS 3 t^ i-:5mpqo .2 c^ -^ i ;© Sd I—1 t—1 I—1 r-l a - O ^ •=ja %•=:, +^ Is -2 itC 6 a> S s Jh ai o r-I c - . o 2- K o c m t- ^ .Sf 03 ca o 0) C C L. C3 --^ S- t, fc, ^ cS S c3 O tf OOPq r^ OQ o d !>. od 0) ^ 03 oc a5 • n\ 0/ c c oj 2 05 ;^ eg a s 5 i ^ Eh 5^ e £ ^OJ o O cS WEST SOMEESET AND NORTH DEVON 33 Geological Conditions The mines have been described in considerable detail byMorgans and others/ from whose papers the following particularsare mainly compiled. The country-rock consists of Devonianshales and sandstones more or less aifected by slaty cleavage,the colours being red, yellow, and pale-green. The slateassociated with
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