And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, November 27, 2020
A hole opened in a Cornish backyard, leading 92m down into a medieval mineshaft
Probably a couple layers of logs and fill dirt. The early last century and the last of the one before didn't seem to give a lot of thought to what happened when things went south in the future.
Cornwall has many of these old shafts, which were capped but their locations were not recorded. After many decades the caps fail, as pictured. My mother lived in Calstock Cornwall (near Gunnislake bridge over the river Tamar) and witnessed a neighbour's rotary clothes dryer disappearing below the garden. Lovely area, but traces of lead & arsenic are everywhere, with radon bubbling up through the granite into basements...
What happened to all the dirt? If it just "dropped down" then it was deeper than 97m to start with, no? Musta been twice as deep in order to absorb all that dirt and still be 97m deep. 97 m = about 300 feet right? Jeez. If you fell in it'd take 2 days to hit bottom! You'd starve to death enroute!
Sucks to be the property owner but that’s pretty cool...
ReplyDeleteWow!
ReplyDeleteThanks be it didn't open up under the loo whilst the owner was sitting on the throne...
ReplyDeleteDoes he get to keep all the tin ore he finds?
ReplyDeleteNo. That belongs to the Queen.
DeleteThat's pretty deep. I wonder what was actually covering it that lasted this long?
ReplyDeleteProbably a couple layers of logs and fill dirt.
DeleteThe early last century and the last of the one before didn't seem to give a lot of thought to what happened when things went south in the future.
Ah England. So full of surprises.
ReplyDeleteFuture root cellar?
ReplyDeleteCornwall has many of these old shafts, which were capped but their locations were not recorded. After many decades the caps fail, as pictured. My mother lived in Calstock Cornwall (near Gunnislake bridge over the river Tamar) and witnessed a neighbour's rotary clothes dryer disappearing below the garden.
ReplyDeleteLovely area, but traces of lead & arsenic are everywhere, with radon bubbling up through the granite into basements...
What happened to all the dirt? If it just "dropped down" then it was deeper than 97m to start with, no? Musta been twice as deep in order to absorb all that dirt and still be 97m deep. 97 m = about 300 feet right? Jeez. If you fell in it'd take 2 days to hit bottom! You'd starve to death enroute!
ReplyDeleteThink of the manual labor that went into that.
ReplyDeleteNow that Oak Island is [theoretically] wrapping up, might be time to bring in the Lagina Brother's...could be some Templar treasure down there.
ReplyDelete"Honey, where's the dog...?"
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