Monument record 1446/1/2 - Saddlebole Mine Workings

Saddlebole Mine Workings. An area of hummocky ground with numerous (more than six) small adit entrances and spoil tips. All are located downslope on the east side of the boundary bank, some are open (towards the top) and appear to form extremely shallow interconnected series of workings, some little more than 5 - 10 metres long. All appear to be crudely pick cut with alteast one entrance conforming to the earlier triangular profile. No lead or copper mineralisation visible. These workings are one of the most likely sites of Medieval mining on the Edge (1).
Recent archaeological investigation by the DCC and National Trust suggest that the cobalt fault which runs from Saddlebole to Finlow was also worked here during the nineteenth century (2).

<1> 1998, Alderley Edge Landscape Project Archive, 58 (Unpublished Report). SCH4334.

<2> Dibben, Nigel, 2006, Personal Communiication (Written Communication). SCH4768.