List of Mines in North Devon and West Somerset

Combmartin Consols

Site Identification Number - 100

Trentishoe parish, Devon

NGR SS625.465.

Also known as Wheal Vervale. Shafts and adit 500 yds west of Tattiscombe Farm. Working for silver-lead 1846-47 (as Wheal Vervale) and possibly earlier; again in 1853-55 (as Combmartin Consols). The northern part of the sett appears to have been worked for iron at a date not known.

For details of the archaeology of silver-lead mining and smelting in this parish see Atkinson 1997, pp. 73-102.

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Dr Peter Claughton
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