ECTON MINE EDUCATIONAL TRUST

HISTORY

The Ecton Mines: Four Millennia of Extracting Copper - article from British Archaeology Nov/Dec 2013, by John Barnatt and Simon Timberlake. Download PDF- warning, this file is very large (7 megabytes)

English Heritage Listings relating to the Ecton Hill area
National Trust information about the Ecton engine house

John Barnatt, archaeological adviser to EMET, has recently published an excellent book on the mine and its history: Delving Even Deeper.
Available from Matlock Mining Museum. You can download a leaflet about this book from here.

Downloads:

An article by Matthew Parris (The Times, 17 Nov 2011)
An article by Steve Henley (EMET webmaster) published in Science in Parliament.
A 1912 article about the Manifold Valley, with a contemporary description of Ecton Mine
Article about Ecton's history in Reflections, August 2013

Snap of a snapped snap-bench

An original timber snap bench from late 18th century.
The snap bench was where miners would sit to eat their snap (lunch).

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