Watch our video trailer. Combe Down Stone Mines Trailer. Discover the stories of Combe Down Stone, the material from which the Georgian City of Bath was built.
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2023年5月26日 — In this video we explore the underground maze that is combe down mine. Situated on the outskirts of Bath, the disused mine dates from the 17th and 18th centu...
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An underground survey of the Firs and Byfield mine areas was carried out in 1994, commissioned by Bath City Council. It was found that approximately 80% of the mines had less than 6 m cover, reducing to 2 m in some places. Irregular mining and robbing stone from supporting pillars had left the mines unstable. An Environmental Impact Assessment was completed for the stabilisation scheme and submitte
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2020年11月21日 — Combe Down and Bathampton Down Quarries make up a 6.22 hectare Site of Special Scientific Interest in Bath and North East Somerset, notified in 1991
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Ralph Allen transformed the landscape with his quarrying activities, building a tramway to transport the stone from Combe Down to the River Avon along what is now Ralph Allen
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2012年8月10日 — By 1838, the underground mines at Combe Down were virtually worked out, and the focus of future freestone quarrying shifted to Box and Sherston, in Wiltshire, where the deep mines enjoyed what
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Around 160 million years ago, the land the became Combe Down was under a warm, shallow, tropical sea. Tiny fragments in this warm sea became coated with thin layers of
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The mines in Combe Down are Oolitic Limestone mines, worked mainly during the 18th and 19th Centuries. Though there is evidence that the Romans first extracted Bath stone
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The mine was surveyed by Hydrock. They provided Oxford Archaeology with CAD drawings showing the locations of pillars, shafts, and the modern roadways. Plans of the mine
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The mines at Combe Down were Oolitic limestone mines. Stone was extracted by the " room and pillar " method, by which chambers were mined out, leaving pillars of stone to
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