History
The mine was active from the late 19th to early 20th century worked by a contractor named Perrier and a sand-digger called Tom Nickham. The sand was sent to the Midlands by train from Pulborough Station for use as moulding sand for making iron castings. The mine tunnels are driven southwards into the Pulborough Sand Rock, immediately below an iron cemented bed at the base of the overlying Marehill Clay, these several beds falling within the Sandgate Beds of the Lower Greensand. The iron-cemented bed constitutes the top third of a metre of the sandstone. Five currently open mine entrances lead into down-dip galleries near the east end of the south side of an open cutting, which itself runs eastwards. After the closure of the mine it was used for mushroom growing and is today an important hibernation site for bats.
Survey of the mine
Explore
This was another one on the “to do” list that I’ve never got round to doing but after having a free afternoon I thought why not, so I did. i wasn’t there long as it’s not big, there was a crawl that leads you into another western section but I thought fuck that as I was Lone Ranger lol. There’s only so many pictures you can take of this place as so here’s the few I did get.
The mine was active from the late 19th to early 20th century worked by a contractor named Perrier and a sand-digger called Tom Nickham. The sand was sent to the Midlands by train from Pulborough Station for use as moulding sand for making iron castings. The mine tunnels are driven southwards into the Pulborough Sand Rock, immediately below an iron cemented bed at the base of the overlying Marehill Clay, these several beds falling within the Sandgate Beds of the Lower Greensand. The iron-cemented bed constitutes the top third of a metre of the sandstone. Five currently open mine entrances lead into down-dip galleries near the east end of the south side of an open cutting, which itself runs eastwards. After the closure of the mine it was used for mushroom growing and is today an important hibernation site for bats.
Survey of the mine
Explore
This was another one on the “to do” list that I’ve never got round to doing but after having a free afternoon I thought why not, so I did. i wasn’t there long as it’s not big, there was a crawl that leads you into another western section but I thought fuck that as I was Lone Ranger lol. There’s only so many pictures you can take of this place as so here’s the few I did get.
