Treverbyn: tanks and dries, Wheal Martyn
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Treverbyn: tanks and dries, Wheal Martyn
Image: © Martin Bodman Taken: 25 May 2011
At Wheal Martyn China Clay Museum. The dries or pan kilns are the linear slate roofed buildings on the left. In front of the dries are the settling tanks which used to accommodate china clay slurry after it had been processed through settling pits and mica drags. An overgrown, disused, sky tip stands on the skyline. In Treverbyn parish
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50.365798
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