Mine Buildings Including Wheel Pit And Arsenic Calciner Wheal Benny

CALSTOCK WHEAL BENNY SX 37 SE 1/146 Mine buildings-including wheel pit and arsenic calciner II Mine buildings at Wheal Benny, including wheel pit and arsenic calciner. Late C19. Slatestone rubble with brick dressings. Plan: Wheal Benny is on the bank of the River Tamar. The site includes wheel pit large enough to accommodate a 50 foot wheel, 4 tin buddles and a Brunton calciner with flues. The calciner is of square plan, with round-arched opening to front leading to an internal vault, with grate at the left side. The flues are to west of the calciner, above ground with arched openings. At the east end of the site is a wheel pit with rubble walls, external rubble housing for the wheel shaft ; the mine was water powered, the leat running above the mine to the south. Sources: Tamar Valley Project.

Listing NGR: SX3975273129