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Mining in Devon: Bal Maiden, Beer Quarry Caves, Dartmoor Tin-Mining, Gook (Headgear), Great Rock Mine, Haytor Granite Tramway, Industri

Mining in Devon: Bal Maiden, Beer Quarry Caves, Dartmoor Tin-Mining, Gook (Headgear), Great Rock Mine, Haytor Granite Tramway, Industri


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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Bal maiden, Beer Quarry Caves, Dartmoor tin-mining, Gook (headgear), Great Rock Mine, Haytor Granite Tramway, Industrial archaeology of Dartmoor, Mining in Cornwall and Devon, Morwellham Quay, Stannary Courts and Parliaments. Excerpt: A bal maiden, from the Old Cornish (mine) and the English maiden (young or unmarried woman), was a female manual labourer in the mining industries of Cornwall and the bordering areas of western Devon, at the south-western extremity of Great Britain. The term has been in use since at least the early 18th century. At least 55,000 women and girls worked as bal maidens, and the actual number is likely to have been much higher. While women in coal mining elsewhere in Britain sometimes worked both on the surface and underground, the bal maidens of Cornwall and Devon worked only on the surface. It is likely that Cornish women worked in metal mining since antiquity, but the first records of female mine workers date from the 13th century. After the Black Death of the 14th century mining in the area declined, and no records of female workers have yet been found from then until the late 17th century. Industrial improvements, the end of Crown control of metal mines, and rising demand for raw materials caused a boom in Cornish mining in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Increasing numbers of women and girls were recruited to the area's mines from about 1720, processing the ore sent up by the male miners underground. The discovery of cheaper sources of copper in North Wales in the 1770s triggered a crash in the copper price, and many of the mines closed. As the Industrial Revolution began in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Welsh metal mines declined and mining in Cornwall and Devon became viable once more. Women and girls were again recruited in large numbers for work in ore...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781230804255
  • Publisher: Booksllc.Net
  • Publisher Imprint: Booksllc.Net
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 28
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 68 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1230804250
  • Publisher Date: 13 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Bal Maiden, Beer Quarry Caves, Dartmoor Tin-Mining, Gook (Headgear), Great Rock Mine, Haytor Granite Tramway, Industri
  • Width: 189 mm


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