Capped shaft at Wheal Peevor
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Capped shaft at Wheal Peevor
Image: © Richard Law Taken: 16 Sep 2012
An unnamed adit shaft of the Wheal Peevor mine, capped by the council in 2005. By (the highly unscientific method of) dropping a stone down it, I deduced that it was too deep to want to fall down, so they did the right thing by capping it off.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.252401
Longitude
-5.220194