Bonsor Dressing Floors by munki-boy
Bonsor Dressing Floors
Bonsor Dressing Floors is in The Lake District National Park in England.
Where copper ore from the Coniston coppermines was broken down to smaller fragments for smelting into copper. There are many remains of the old workings and some historic items preserved including old mine carts.
Highly visible when making ones way up the Coppermines Valley for there are enormous spoil heaps before the Bonsor Dressing Floors that have been swept down the valley to clear a flat area of land for the buildings and dressing floors.
Created: 27 November 2016 Edited: 29 November 2023
Bonsor Dressing Floors
Bonsor Dressing Floors LiDAR Map
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Local History around Bonsor Dressing Floors
There are some historic monuments around including:
Coniston copper minesTwo bloomeries, 340m and 570m NNE of Hoathwaite Landing on Coniston WaterRoman road in Wrynose BottomGreenburn copper mines and associated ore processing worksMickleden Beck prehistoric cairnfield and field system, funerary cairn and a medieval dispersed settlement centred 840m south west of Pike of StickleSeven Intakes medieval dispersed settlement 210m south west of Fell FootDike, circles and cairns on Bleaberry HawsLong Intakes medieval dispersed settlement and associated kiln 370m south of Fell FootCairns and enclosure on The Rigg, BanisheadMoot mound at Fell Foot Farm, Little LangdaleThe Langdale Boulders, two prehistoric rock art sites in Great Langdale 250m south of Harry PlaceRoman road up Wrynose PassCairns on Foul ScrowRifle Range target and Marker's Hut, 150m north west of Blea MossCastle Howe hillfort, Little LangdaleCairnfield 210m south west of Throng Moss ReservoirYewdale lime kiln 380m south west of Low YewdaleTwo rifle ranges on Silver How.
