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Bouse teams, Sir Francis Mine, Gunnerside Gill
Bouse teams at the Sir Francis lead mine dressing floor, Gunnerside, Swaledale in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire.
The eleven stone bunkers above the dressing floor of Sir Francis Mine were used by gangs of miners to store their accumulation of bouse (ore) prior to it being taken to the dressing floor for processing.
Author: Joan Martin
© Joan Martin (PHOTO NORTH). All Rights Reserved.
Photograph size: 24.0 Mpixels (68.7 MB uncompressed) - 6000x4000 pixels (20x13.3 in / 50.8x33.9 cm at 300 ppi)
Photograph keywords: bouse, bouse teams, dressing floor, Gunnerside, lead mine, lead mining, Swaledale
Published in: Lead, Gunnerside
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