I'm sure this place has been explored a lot throughout the years, but I personally have never been to a mine before so could not resist. (I know, shocking)
So the mines themselves have been around for centuries, probably as early as the 13th century, and then more recently re-purposed as an ammunition depot during the second World War. The only way in that we knew of was a drop between the trees and bushes, discreetly hiding a chamber to the quarry. The entry into the main site was through a narrow crawl space from the first chamber. It really is an army crawl, and was incredibly muddy and wet but that is the way of the urbex. Once inside though, I was pleasantly surprised to see the place untouched by vandalism. Who knows how long some of the drawings on the rocks have been there for? There was a lot hidden there, and unfortunately we didn't do the whole area that we could as this was a last minute urbex and only had so much juice in the torches. Did not want to get lost in there and if I wasn't with someone who had been there before I probably would have gotten lost. Its a maze! Sorry for the long write up, enjoy the photos
So the mines themselves have been around for centuries, probably as early as the 13th century, and then more recently re-purposed as an ammunition depot during the second World War. The only way in that we knew of was a drop between the trees and bushes, discreetly hiding a chamber to the quarry. The entry into the main site was through a narrow crawl space from the first chamber. It really is an army crawl, and was incredibly muddy and wet but that is the way of the urbex. Once inside though, I was pleasantly surprised to see the place untouched by vandalism. Who knows how long some of the drawings on the rocks have been there for? There was a lot hidden there, and unfortunately we didn't do the whole area that we could as this was a last minute urbex and only had so much juice in the torches. Did not want to get lost in there and if I wasn't with someone who had been there before I probably would have gotten lost. Its a maze! Sorry for the long write up, enjoy the photos