Ochre was removed from that area and from an area up to 33 feet south of the shaft, where the deposit was proved to 18 feet above the main drift. Production was evidently sufficient to justify the re-roofing of the old farmhouse for use as a drying shed. The site today has already been developed for residential purposes on three sides and the central area cleared with roads laid out preparatory to development. 1 and 2 Shafts. Consequently little remains to identify the sites of the three shafts sunk during working of the mine.
Shaft is the only one displaying any evidence at surface.
That shaft is located in the garden behind No. 35 Haroldston Close, at NGR SM 95111411, where a small shaft mound is visible. Shaft was situated at NGR SM 95101400 immediately north east of the northern end of Venns Close. The site was obliterated in the earlier site clearance work and was not immediately identifiable at surface but, using information supplied by the author, the current developers have excavated an area of overburden around the shaft to locate the collar and are to cap same. The position of the old farmhouse is marked by a stone wall below the northern boundary fence of the northernmost houses in Venns Close and the remains of the outbuildings to the east of the farmhouse are still in evidence in the small triangle of ground to the northeast of those houses. Shaft is no longer in evidence at surface, its site being occupied by Nos.