Warning - Mine exploration is DANGEROUS!
If you wish to go underground, we recommend that you join an established group, such as the Plymouth Caving Group. They will give you tuition in underground techniques, equipment and clothing, while ensuring that you remain safe while enjoying yourself.
The owners of this website can take no responsibility
for accidents which may occur as a result of ignoring this warning.
It should also be noted that although large areas of woodland between Gawton and Devon Great Consols are treated by their owners as open-access areas for walkers, much of the Tamar Valley is privately owned. We would appreciate it if you restricted your interest to viewing this website, rather than risking gentlemens' agreements which we have arranged for controlled access to specific areas. Guided walks around sites such as Devon Great Consols are regularly arranged through Tamar Valley AONB Service and Morwellham Quay. In particular, landowners take an understandably dim view of people suing them for accidents which occur on their land through no fault of their own.
This website was set up in 2008 to showcase research into Industrial Archaeology in the Tamar Valley, which straddles East Cornwall and West Devon, in the South-West of England. Its author is Robert Waterhouse, with website design and construction by Andy Belcher. The research work presented here has been carried out largely by Robert Waterhouse BA, Site Archaeologist for Morwellham Quay, with much assistance from members of the Morwellham Archaeological Group. |
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Since 2002, this has included an annual excavation of two weeks or longer, over CBA National Archaeology Week in July.
Other excavations and building survey work have taken place at various times, at and around Morwellham and Tavistock. Since 2004, this has included detailed surveys and research excavations on parts of the Tavistock Canal, as part of information gathering for a forthcoming book.