List of Mines in North Devon and West Somerset

Parracombe Mine.

Site Identification Number - 102

Parracombe parish, Devon

NGR SS667.449.

Shaft on northwest side of village, in field behind former malthouse; other workings reputedly in valley to west. Working for silver-lead 1877-78.

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

Dr Peter Claughton
P.F.Claughton@exeter.ac.uk
Last modified 15 January 2024