SECTION 1 SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

NEWSLETTER 1 The Beckamoor Combe Stream survey, Sandy Introduction to the DTRG, Tom Greeves Gerrard Who’s who and why?, Phil Newman Upper Merrivale Mill and the Civil War, Mike Upper Merrivale Tin Mill and its context, Tom Dickinson Greeves Book Review: The Industrial Revolution in Earthwork survey at Upper Merrivale Tin Metals, Joan Day and R.F. Tylecote (eds), Blowing Mill, Sandy Gerrard The Institute of Metals Sixty-two years of progress [Upper Merrivale] Outcombe Tin Mill in Sheepstor Parish: a Money matters survey of the field remains, Peter and Paul Crossed wires Castle, Malcolm, Gill and Nicholas Giles Book Reviews: Metallurgical Sites in Britain: John Robins - a tribute Priorities for Research and Preservation. Available from the Institute of Metals NEWSLETTER 4 Early Mining in the British Isles. Proceedings New mortarstone exposed at mill [right bank, of the Early Mining Workshop at Plas Tan Lower Hartor Tor, River Plym] Y Bwlch Mortarstone at Keaglesborough Conferences Tin streamworks - a salutary tale [] Bigbury Bay ingots NEWSLETTER 2 RCHME survey of tinworks Honorary members Summary report on the second season of Ingots found off South Coast [Bigbury excavation at Upper Merrivale Tin Blowing Bay] and Stamping Mill 1992, Sandy Gerrard Devon Record Office and Tom Greeves Cuttings [articles featuring the DTRG] Book Reviews: The Bibliography, Summary report on the excavation of Upper Peter Hamilton-Leggett, Devon Books in Merrivale Tin Blowing and Stamping Mill association with DNP (SX55197664), Sandy Gerrard and Tom Industrial Archaeology of Dartmoor, Helen Greeves Harris, Peninsula Press Documentary research on the Walkham Valley Mines of Dartmoor and the Tamar Valley after Crockerntor 1994 1913, P.H.G. Richardson, NMRS Crockerntor, Mike Brown Tudor and Stuart Devon - The Common Estate Book Reviews: Early Metallurgical Sites in and Government, Grey, T. et al [eds], Great Britain BC2000 to AD 1500. University of Exeter Press Available from the Institute of Metals Other Publications [involving the DTRG and Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities Vol.1 The East, tinworking] Vol.2 The North, Jeremy Butler, Devon Books NEWSLETTER 5 Extract from ‘Prospectus of Mr Webb’s Plan NEWSLETTER 3 for Exploring Mines; together with the DTRG AGM Original and Present Prices of Mines 1807’ Walkham Valley research DTRG AGM 20 March 1993 Crockerntor 1994 High Moorland Visitor Centre, New galleries at museum [of Dartmoor Life] Visit to Southill Leat and Mill, 19 June 1993, DTRG walk Cyril Thompson Bounds of a tin sett on Smallacombe Stream, George Agricola River Lyd?, Mike Brown Crockerntor 1994 Mortarstone wear, Ivor West

1 Tinners of Dartmoor in the late 15th Century – The Bailiff of Blackmoor, Thomas Beare, ed a summary of a seminar at Two Bridges Alan Buckley Hotel, 17 April 1993, Martin Wagrel Nearer The Weather - 500th anniversary of Fieldwork and survey at Wheal Fortune Mine, Crockerntor Great Court, Phil Newman May 1993, Phil Newman Two gentlemen of Hexworthy, Bridget NEWSLETTER 8 Howard Editorial, Phil Newman Dartmoor mine plans - an exciting research Report - Commemorating the 1494 Great resource, Tom Greeves Court of Devon Tinners, Elizabeth Donald Smith 1907-1993 - an appreciation Stanbrook Out Of The Mist [exhibition] DTRG walk 29 October, Peter Hirst

NEWSLETTER 6 DTRG walk 18 September, Elizabeth Stanbrook Editorial, Phil Newman Letters DTRG walk 8 August 1993, Mike Brown Summary report on the fourth season of The Golitha Tide, Peter Roberts excavation at Upper Merrivale Tin Blowing Miners of Peter Tavy: The evidence of the and Stamping Mill, Tom Greeves census returns. Paul Pringle The Brimpts Tin Mine, Roger Bird and Peter Summary report on the third season of Hirst excavation at Upper Merrivale Tin Blowing William Ambrose Grose 1886-1994, Tom and Stamping Mill (SX55197664), Tom Greeves Greeves Book Reviews: Heathercombe, The History of NEWSLETTER 9 a Dartmoor Valley, Claude Pike, Editorial, Phil Newman Westcountry Books Minions walk 21 May 1995, John Viant Thurlow's Dartmoor Companion, George A Dartmoor Tin Mine Ledger, Ronald Homer Thurlow, Peninsula Press Meavy Iron Mine, Mike Brown Tin Mines and Miners of Dartmoor, Tom Field survey in the Walkham Valley 1995, Greeves, Devon Books Phil Newman Dartmoor, Atlas of Antiquities Volume 4, Soussons Forest (NW) Tin Stamping Mill, Jeremy Butler, Devon Books Roger Bird and Peter Hirst Donald Langley Smith 22 June 1907 - 30 June Timber and Tin, Mike Brown 1993. Tom Greeves Book Review: The Dartmoor Stannaries, Paul

Hambling, Orchard Publications NEWSLETTER 7 Editorial, Phil Newman NEWSLETTER 10 Phil Newman Agricola conference reports, Editorial, Phil Newman Which way to Crockerntor?, Paul Rendell Walks, Donald Simpson and Hugh Farrer A reconstruction of Upper Merrivale Tin Mill Wheal Druid and the engine houses of in its final phase of working, circa 1700, Dartmoor, Dicon and Damian Nance Robert Waterhouse Nineteenth-century documentary evidence for Fieldwork and survey at Beckamoor Combe Beckamoor Combe 1994. Phil Newman Survey of an openwork on Haytor Down, Book Reviews: The Archaeology of Kit Hill, Andrew Passmore Peter Herring and Nigel Thomas, Cornwall Early tin mills in the Newleycombe Valley, County Council Phil Newman Minions - an Archaeological Survey of the Books and publications Caradon Mining District 1993, Adam

Sharpe, Cornwall County Council NEWSLETTER 11 St. Just, An Archaeological Survey of the Mining District 1992, 2 vols, Adam Sharpe, Editorial, John and Catherine Gale Cornwall County Council DTRG AGM 1996, Esmée Sykes

2 Survey of tin streamworks in the Ruddycleave Survey Weekends 19 and 20 April and 10 and Valley, Bob Bruce, Pauline Belsey and 11 May, Tom Greeves Esmée Sykes Visit to Eggworthy and Criptor Mills, The Archaeology of Mining in South West Walkham Valley, Saturday 15 February Britain, Keith Lane 1997, Adrienne Yelland and Richard A tin mill in Widecombe Village, Tom Kitchin Greeves Mining Attractions in Cornwall Field survey weekends, Mike Passmore Rakes' Progress, Shirley Ryan Tin smelting at Golitha Falls Membership, Peter Hirst NEWSLETTER 14 Publications Editorial, John Gale Chagford social evening Walk to Whiteworks and Social Evening at

NEWSLETTER 12 Plume of Feathers, Princetown Whiteworks Mine historical notes, Tom Editorial, John Gale Greeves Future events and DTRG publications, John Avon Dam Blowing House, Bob Smerdon Gale Medieval pottery and tinworking, Tom A scrape too far! Life as a volunteer at Upper Greeves Merrivale, John and Elaine Viant The beguiling Brown's House landscape, A probable tin mill at Claziwell, Tom and Richard Horsham Elisabeth Greeves Tin Mining in the valley of the Narrator brook, Avon Dam Blowing House and Furnace. Some Mike Townsend observations and Speculations, Robert Books Reviews: Black Tor Falls and Black Smerdon Tor Falls Tin Mills, Sandy Gerrard, Meavy Summary report of the fifth season of Valley Archaeology Reports 3 and 5 excavations at Upper Merrivale Tin New Writing Blowing and Stamping Mill, Tom Greeves A find [Glazemeet Mill], Bob Smerdon Book Review: Exploring the Lower Walkham Membership list, Peter Hirst Valley, Paul Rendell, Forest Publishing Ramsley Mine Chimney DTRG walk 11 August 1996, Andrew Passmore NEWSLETTER 15 Editorial, John Gale NEWSLETTER 13 The DTRG AGM Postbridge 21 March 1998, Editorial, John Gale Elisabeth Greeves The DTRG AGM at Holne, Elisabeth Greeves DTRG AGM excursion, 21 March 1998, Keith Post AGM walk 8 March 1997, Peter Roberts Lane & Richard Horsham DTRG Publications, Peter Hirst Chairman's reports [New Vititer Mine Walk Centre for South Western Historical Studies and Walkham Valley Project], Tom Greeves Restoration work at Upper Merrivale Mill, Outing to Geevor Mine, Richard Kitchin Tom Greeves Torquay tin query, Dave Brewer Avon Dam Blowing House, Tom Greeves Early industry below Brown's House, Richard Of interest [Keaglesborough], Mike Brown Horsham Books Reviews: The Brimpts Tin Mines, Interpretation of tinworking slags in South Dartmeet, Roger Bird and Peter Hirst, West , Albertine Malham DTRG Brimpts Tin Mines - update, Peter Hirst The Archaeology of Mining and Metallurgy in Ictis, Paul Jeffery South-West Britain, Phil Newman (ed) News from the Peak District Mining Museum, HMS and PDHMS Lynn Willies A seldom quoted tinworking reference from Book Review: The Mines and Mining in the 1664, Roger Bird West, Mike Brown, Dartmoor Press Dartmoor mines in 1799, Tom Greeves Letter to the editor, Peter Hirst

3 NEWSLETTER 16 Crockerntor – The Tinner’s Parliament Editorial, John Gale (poem), James Crowden “A Lyffe in Pyttes and Caves” Letters to the Editor: Ictis Peter Hirst, Roger Tinners Rabbits paperweights Bird, Mike Passmore; Furnaces RJ Smerdon Artefact Drawing at Upper Merrivale, Peter Book Reviews: Transactions of the Hirst Devonshire Association Vol 131 & The Field Excursion to Gobbett tin mine and Deep Historical Atlas of South-west England. Swincombe, Bob Bruce Social Evening Report, John Gale NEWSLETTER 19 Drawing Artefacts, Shirley Ryan The DTRG AGM Chagford 18 March 2000, The 1791 Settlement Examination of John Esmée Sykes Rule, Miner, Mike Brown Kelly Mine Open Day The Whiddon Tin Mine, nr Ashburton, A Brief Report of walk below Grenofen Bridge, Deric Investigation, Roger Bird Munro Letters to the Editor: Ictis, FJ Long, Peter Tinworking in Rushford Wood. Chagford, Hirst and Roger Bird Mike Passmore Book Reviews: The Dartmoor Tin Industry, A Traces of Tin, John Viant Field Guide, Phil Newman; Survey weekends at Over Tor Brook, Andrew Dartmoor – Landscapes through time, Sandy Passmore Gerrard Golden Dagger Tin Mine, Andrew Passmore New Writing A Pottery Sherd from Vitifer Mine, Andrew Ramsley Mine, Owen Baker Passmore New Members Letters to the Editor: Nick Walter Pauline Belsey – A Tribute NEWSLETTER 17 Publications on Tin and Slag, Tom Greeves Editorial, John Gale and Owen Baker The DTRG AGM Meavy 20 March 1999, Book Reviews: “Boveycombehedd” & Four Esmée Sykes Deserted Settlements on Buckland Down, Excursion from Cadover Bridge, Kath Brewer from Transactions of the Devonshire Report on the Recent Work in the Walkham Association Vol 131; Valley, Tom Greeves and Andrew Passmore The Historical Atlas of South-west England; The Enigmatic Tinworking Below Brown’s Explosives, Gypsies and Strawberries, Tom House, Mike Passmore Greeves; KMPS and DTRG, Peter Hirst Early British Tin Industry, Sandy Gerrard. The Mary Tavy/Peter Tavy Excursion, Deric Munro NEWSLETTER 20 Tolgus Tin and the Blue Hills, John Gale Visit to the Brendon Hills Iron Mines, Nick Survey of Tin Streamworks in the Walter Ruddycleave Valley, Second Interim 400th Anniversary of the Great Court of Devon Report, Bob Bruce Tinners, Owen Baker Letters to the Editor: Ictis, Paul Jeffrey, Roger Tin in the Year 2000 in the Central European Bird and Geoff Walford. Region, Tom Greeves Waye Estate, Ashburton, Mike Brown NEWSLETTER 18 Huntingdon Mine, Tom Greeves Ringleshutes Mine Walk and Social Evening, Francis Warne – an appreciation, Tom Greeves Church House Inn, Holne, Bob Bruce Miners of Western Dartmoor in 1851, Mike Fieldwork and Post-Excavation Update, Tom Brown Greeves and Andrew Passmore An Unrecorded Mortar Stone at Fardel Manor, A Pottery Sherd from Gobbet Mill, Cornwood, Bob Bruce AndrewPassmore West Wheal Robert Mine – planning The Devon Sites and Monuments Register, application for a One-2-One mast Frances Griffith Book Review: The Early British Tin Industry, Sandy Gerrard, Tempus;

4 The Interest Groups of the Tin Industry in NEWSLETTER 23 England c1580-1640, Mariko Mizui, PhD DTRG Symposium on Future Directions for thesis; Research, Belstone 23 March 2002 Anne An Electric Stove and Ingenuity, Tom Whitbourn Greeves, Devon Life Vol 5 No3 The DTRG AGM Holne 20 April 2002 Bob Bruce NEWSLETTER 21 Visit to Brimpts Tin Mines 20 April 2002 The DTRG AGM Clearbrook 14 July 2001 Anne Whitbourn Colin Wakeham Book Reviews: Furnaces to cucumbers, RR Messages from the new and departing Angerstein (trans Torsten & Peter Berg) Chairmen Science Mus; Tinworking in Central Europe Nick Walter Mines of Cornwall & Devon, P Stanier, Tenth AGM Excursion Deric Munro Twelveheads Press Extracts from the DTRG Tenth Anniversary Unusual Mortarstone Discovered at Display Bob Bruce Ailsborough, Sheepstor Tom Greeves Research Ideas Bob Bruce 1859 cutting on “Mining in the Shaugh Moor and Blackabrook Valley saved District” John Gale from Clayworking Survey Weekends, Greena Ball Bob Bruce William Flewin – A Family Link Wth Golden DTRG visit to Lower Meavy Valley 12 May Dagger and Birch Tor Mines 80 Years Ago 2002 Anne Whitbourn Tom Greeves Hensroost Mine Track Public Enquiry Correspondence: The Bishop of Exeter Nick Geevor Tin Mine Heritage Centre Walter; Limekilns Bob Bruce; Fardel King Edward Training Mine Bob Bruce Manor Mortar Stone Bob Bruce NEWSLETTER 24 NEWSLETTER 22 Visit to Tinworking sites in the Upper Editorial John Gale Walkham Valley 31st August 2002 Mike DTRG visit to Eylesbarrow Mine Anne Hedges Whitbourn Visit to Rosedale Mine and Blue Hills Tin Visit to Vitiver and Birch Tor Mines, and Streams 28th September 2002 Judith Social Evening at the Plume of Feathers, Farmer Princetown Anne Whitbourn Wheelpits and Pasties – a day out with the Objection to Planning Application (to phone DTRG Mike Passmore mast at Wheal Robert) Owen Baker (see Greena Ball Streamwork Bob Bruce also Stop Press, p12) King’s Ford Streamworks Bob Bruce Appeal for specimens of slag for analysis Plane Table Surveying – how is it done? Anne Over Tor Brookhead Survey Bob Bruce Whitbourn Book Reviews: Images of Cornish Tin, Stoyel The DTRG Questionnaire Bob Bruce & Williams, English Heritage National Book Review: Angerstein’s Travels 1753-55 Monuments Record; Geevor Tin Mine The Warren House Inn, Greeves & Stanbrook, Ruddycleave/Blackslade Water Survey Bob Quay Publications; Bruce Walkhampton Parish History (web page), The DTRG Website Tony Jewell Mike Brown; Dartmoor Family History Index, NEWSLETTER 25 Walkhampton (CD ROM), Mike Brown ; Editorial John Gale The Dartmoor Tin Industry, Industrial DTRG Chairman’s Report – AGM, Belstone Heritage 27 (2), Mike Brown; 22nd March 2003 Owen Baker Mining in Cornwall Vol 4, LJ Bullen, Tempus; Belstone Walk 22nd March 2003 John Viant Cornish Mining, Bryan Earl, Cornish Report on Upper Merrivale Post-Excavation Hillside Work and On Walkham Valley Project 22nd Letters to the Editor: The Oxford Letters DMP March 2003 Tom Greeves Westaway

5 Walk to Hensroost and Hooten Wheals mines Visit to East Vitifer Mine Nick Walter Hugh Farrer Tin Working at North Bovey Nick Walter Use of handheld GPS units for surveying Primitive Ore Crushing Nick Walter limits of streamworks Bill Radcliffe Review: English Heritage Survey Report, A Mortarstone on Pinchaford Ball Phil Headland Warren and the Birch Tor and Newman Vitifer Tin Mines Nick Walter Dead Lake Streamwork Survey Bob Bruce Early Iron Working on Exmoor. Report of 4th Future Projects? Bob Bruce Exmoor Archaeology Forum Nick Walter Draft map of SW “access land” published Bob Field Excursion, Newleycombe Valley, 13th Bruce July 2003 Geoffrey Adams Retyped transcript of Sale Notice for Gobbet Letter to the Editor: Comment on Report on mine Nick Walter Post-AGM talk Tony Brooks The DTRG AGM Belstone 22nd March 2003 The 700th Anniversary of the Tinner’s Charter Esmée Sykes in 1305 Phil Newman Bagtor Enigmas: DTRG Walk and Social 16th NEWSLETTER 26 October 2004 Mike Passmore What does “Post-Excavation” mean? – Alidades “ain’t what they used to be” Phil Progress on Upper Merrivale Tin Mill Tom Newman Greeves Visit to Kelly Mine, Lustleigh and Caseleigh th Analysis of Dartmoor Slags Albertine Malham Blowing House, Sunday 18 April 2004 A guided walk and social evening with the Bob Bruce DTRG Stephen Holley New Publications: Devon’s Earliest Tin Dead Lake Streamwork – Survey Report Bob Coinage 1302-3, by Tom Greeves, Great Bruce Rock, by Tony Brooks and Druid Mine, Visit to King Edward Mine, Camborne Peter Ashburton by Phil Newman Hirst NAMHO News Stephen Holley South Crofty reopens Nick Walter Peter Hirst obituary DTRG (with thanks to NAMHO News Stephen Holley Tony Beard)

NEWSLETTER 27 NEWSLETTER 29 DTRG AGM Scorriton 6 March 2004 Esmée Editorial Chris Kelland Sykes Chagford 700th Charter Anniversary Tom Chairman’s Hello Phil Newman Greeves Deadlake Streamworks Survey Bob Bruce The DTRG AGM Postbridge 19 March 2005 GPS Workshop Mike Passmore Esmée Sykes Second GPS Workshop Bob Bruce Post AGM Talk: Great Rock ‘Shiny Ore’ Tin Slag Finds Deric Munro Mine, by Tony Brooks. Stephen Holley A Surveying Jig Deric Munro and Bill AGM afternoon visit East Birch Tor Mine Radcliffe Stephen Holley Tin Ore Identification Seminar Tim Whitbourn Conservation Work at Caroline Wheal Prosper Post-AGM talk: Tin and Lead Dressing Floors Geoffrey Adams Lee Gillibrand NAMHO Regional Research Seminar, 9th Visit to Wheal Combestone and Week Ford April 2005 Anne Whitbourn Anne Whitbourn Visit to West Penwith 19th April Owen Baker Visit to Early Cornish Tin Mills Anne Book Review: Balmaidens, by Lynne Mayers Whitbourn Judith Farmer DTRG Code of Conduct Tinner’s Hut Recording Day Phil Newman NAMHO News Stephen Holley Dartmoor - Two Hundred Years Ago Nick Walter NEWSLETTER 28 Male or Bastard Tin Chris Kelland Early Iron Working on Exmoor: An Update Peter Hirst: A Perspective John Gale Nick Walter Greetings from New Zealand Chris Davie

6 NEWSLETTER 30 NEWSLETTER 32 Editorial Phil Newman Note from the Chairman Phil Newman Field Trip to the Upper Plym Valley, Saturday DTRG Helps Repair Stone Wall Anne 4th June 2005 Val Barns Whitbourn Field Trip to North Dartmoor, 7th August Membership News Bob Bruce 2005 Hugh Farrer Workshop Report –Use of Handheld GPS for Remembering Peter Hirst Judith Farmer Survey 5th Workshop – 14 Nov 2006 Bob DTRG Walk and Social, 15th October 2005 Bruce Nick Walter Annual Social Mike Passmore “Alidades ain’t what they used to be” Lyn Field Trip to Wheal Caroline 10th Aug 2006 Willies Stephen Holley Bronze Age Axe Casting in the 21st Century Research Report – Survey of the Plantation Tim Whitbourn Wheelpit, Brimpts South Mine 20th Mar NAMHO News Stephen Holley 2006. Bob Bruce Use of Handheld GPS for Survey: 2nd and 3rd Research Report – Walkham Valley Workshops Bob Bruce Streamwork Surveys Fox Cubs Streamwork Walkham Valley Streamwork Surveys 2005 27th Sep 2006 Bob Bruce Bob Bruce DTRG Walk – Foxtor Mire Sunday 20th Aug New Access and a New Map Bob Bruce 2006 Richard Horsham Book Reviews: The Mechanics of Optimism, DTRG Walk – Foxtor Mire, Natural History Jeffrey J Safford; Mountains and Orefields, Notes Val Barns Nigel Jones, Mark Walters & Pat Frost; The Story of Mining in Cornwall, Allan Buckley; The Great Laxey Mine, Andrew NEWSLETTER 33 Scarffe; Water Power in Mining, Peter Notes from the Committee Claughton (Ed) Phil Newman Research Reports – Further discovery at the Plantation Wheelpit, Brimpts South Mine, NEWSLETTER 31 Bob Bruce Editorial Phil Newman. Members Activities – DTRG visit to Brimpts Trail Officially Opened to the Public Gunnislake Clitters Mine, Janice Went; Again Anne Whitbourn Members Turn Detective at Crymes Leat, 2006 AGM: Field Visit to Yeoland Consols Mike Passmore; Field Trip to Holne Chase Bob Smerdon Mine, Owen Baker; and Foxtor Mire Walk Ailsborough Mine – Lopes v. Deacon 1842 – two uncertainties resolved, Tom Greeves. Tom Greeves Progress Reports – Yeoland Mines Project, The Atlas Burning House Nick Walter and Tinner’s Building Recording Project, Workshop Report – Use of Handheld GPS for Phil Newman; Survey of Off Moor and Survey 4th Workshop – 23rd February 2006 Fringe Tin Streamworking Sites, Stephen Bob Bruce Holley; and Brimpts Tin Mines Trail Research Report – Walkham Valley Stream- Update, Work Parties, and Guided Tours of work Surveys Bob Bruce the Brimpts Mines, Anne Whitbourn DTRG Legacy of the late Peter Neaverson Members Articles – Post AGM talk by Robert Phil Newman Waterhouse on the Tavistock Canal and Visit to Botallack April 25th 2006 Judith Associated Mines, Stephen Holley; Farmer Newspaper Article from the Exeter Flying Post 1 Nov 1787, Nick Walter; and References to Yeoland Mine, Judith Farmer

7 NEWSLETTER 34 Reports of Past Events – Committee Reports Field Trip to Ringleshuttes, Hooten Wheals Personal Research Reports – & Hensroost mines. Ron Quilter A letter from Halsanger to Plymouth dated Field Trip: Tinworks along the East Dart October 1687, Robert Smerdon; River. Hugh Farrer. Mining Leases in the Maristow Papers, Visit to West Penwith. Jeanne Silvestri. Judith Farmer; Field Trip: Mines near Chagford. Bill Google Earth, A useful online facility, Phil Radcliffe. Newman; Workshop Report. Use of Handheld GPS More on Whiteworks, Phil Newman; for Survey. Bob Bruce. The Dartmoor Mining and Smelting Future Events, Miscellaneous Notices.. Company, Chris Kelland; Bachelor’s Hall Tin Mine, Chris Kelland Underground tinworkings near Black Tor (R. Meavy) , Chris Kelland. NEWSLETTER 37 Reports of Past Events – Committee Information and Reports The Third Peter Hirst Memorial Walk on Group Research – the 29th of August, Pat Watson; Update to the Tinner’s Buildings Recording Exploring the Brimpts Tin Mines Sett, Bob Project, Bob Bruce. Bruce; The “Off Moor” Streamworks Project Steve Visit to Cape Cornwall, Jeanne Silvestri; Holley. Visit To The Mines Of The Lower The Walkham Valley Project, Bob Bruce. Walkham Valley, Doug Thompstone. Update to the Burrator / Rough Tor Mines Future Events, Miscellaneous Notices. project, Anne Whitbourn. Brimpts Tin Mines Trail, Ann Whitbourn. NEWSLETTER 35 Tinner’s Mills Project, Greg Bradbury. Committee Reports Personal/Individual Research Reports Personal/Individual Research Reports – Bottle Hill Mine, Judith Farmer. Mining Leases in the Maristow A Slag Site and a New Tin Mill, Tom (Roborough) Papers, Judith Farmer; Greeves. Timber for Dartmoor Mills, Tin Miner. Speculation about the Blowing House Reports of Past Events – Furnace, Robert Smerdon. Brimpts Work Days, Anne Whitbourn; Roughtor Plantation and the Alliance Field Trip to Furzhill Wood, Robert Mining Association, Chris Kelland. Smerdon; Brownie House Blowing House, Sean Field Trip to some “Off Moor” Taylor. Streamworks, Stephen Holley; Letters to the Editor. Chagford Tinner’s Fair, Derek Collins. Reports of Past Events – Future Events, Miscellaneous Notices. “Off Moor” Streamworks, Bob Bruce. Obituary – John Gale, Bob Bruce. Post AGM talk, Stephen Holley. Field Visit Upper Meavy, David Eeles. NEWSLETTER 36 Field Visit Kit Hill, Stephen Docksey. Committee Reports Field Trip East Dart, Bill Radcliffe. Group Research – Future Events, Miscellaneous Notices. Tinners, buildings recording project. Bob Newspaper Articles on Tin Mines, Chris Bruce. Kelland. Mine clearance at Burrator. Anne Whitbourn. Personal/Individual Research Reports – The Strode Family Papers: A Preliminary Investigation. Judith Farmer. Tin Smelting at Colston. Bob Smerdon. Letters to the Editor.

8 NEWSLETTER 38 Off Moor Streamworks Stephen Holley Committee Reports Personal/Individual Research Group Research - Some Further Notes on the Strode Family Prehistory of Upper Merrivale Tin Mill, Tom Papers, Judith Farmer Greeves. Early Tinworking on the East Okement River Tinners’ Buildings Recording Project – Update, Tom Greeves Bob Bruce DTRG clothing Burrator – Rough Tor Mines Project, Anne AGM Reports - Whitbourn Report Pat Watson Brimpts Tin Mines, Anne Whitbourn Geology of Dartmoor Stephen Holley Brimpts Mine – Mid Nineteenth Century Bubhill and Skit Tinworks Pat Watson Recollections, Tom Greeves Historic Mining Image No 2, Atlas Mine, Tom NAMHO – Latest News, Peter Claughton Greeves Personal/Individual Research - Letters to the Editor - Raising Capital for Mining Arsenic, Bottle Hill, Musings on Mortar Stones, Nick Walter Judith Farmer W.H. Hosking, Greg Bradbury Brief description of Arsenic News Information prior to the formation of the British Hemerdon Mine, Sandy Gerrard Arsenic Mines, Greg Bradbury & Chris Kelland Stream Tin, Greg Bradbury & Chris Kelland Dartmoor’s Tin Mills, Greg Bradbury Mining Machinery Modelling, Pat Watson NEWSLETTER 40 Dartmoor Mining Accidents, Greg Bradbury & Committee Reports Chris Kelland Obituaries: Beatrice Brook, Tom Greeves; Peter Historic Mining Image No 1, Tom Greeves Richardson Hexworthy Mine Newspaper Cuttings, Chris News:- Kelland Papers to be published, Phil Newman News - Crownhill Down, Jim Bonnor Brownie Cross Blowing House, Sean R Taylor Brownies House Blowing House, Sean Taylor The Use of Windpower in Shaft Furnace Tin Dartmoor Online Smelting, Albertine Malham Abandoned Mine Plans, Greg Bradbury Hemerdon Ball Tungsten and Tin Mine, Bob Current Projects:- Bruce Post-Survey Workshops, Bob Bruce PWDRO – Mining Records at Risk, Bob Bruce Brimpts and Burrator, Anne Whitbourn Hemerdon Mine (1951) – Newspaper Cutting Burrator and Roughtor Mines, Anne Whitbourn Letters to the Editor Brimpts Mine, Anne Whitbourn Reports of Past Events – Tinner’s buildings Recording – Update, Bob Exploration of the Brimpts Tin Mine Sett - and Bruce Barbecue, Bob Bruce Off-moor Streamworks, Steve Holley Fourth Peter Hirst Memorial Walk, Pat Watson Individual Research Mines of the Lemon Valley and report of Some Observations on Arsenic Mining Autumn walk and Social, David Eeles Documents held at PWDRO, Judith Farmer Tin recognition day in the field, Greg Bradbury Tin Ore from Dartmeet Smelted at Tavistock in Future Events & Miscellaneous Notices 1832, Pat Watson Book Review – Mining in a Medieval Landscape, The Social Impact of Mining in the 19th Century Stephen Rippon, Peter Claughton & Chris Smart on Widecombe Parish, Pat Watson Letters to the Editor NEWSLETTER 39 Mining Journal Extracts, Chris Kelland Committee Reports Historic Mining Image No 3, Golden Dagger, Tom Group Research - Greeves Tinner’s Buildings Recording Project Bob The Stannaries, Chris Kelland Bruce Reports of Past Events – Burrator – Rough Tor Mines Project Anne Birch Tor & Vitifer Mine Leat, Nigel Heath Whitbourn Fifth Peter Hirst Memorial Walk, Patrick Brimpts Tin Mines Anne Whitbourn Watson Bal Mine – Norsworthy Bridge Anne Whitbourn A Volunteers Tale, John Watson

9 Trip to Combe Martin Silver-Lead Mines, Barry 24th September 2010, Pat Watson & Tanya Welch Brimpts Tin Mine, Chris Kelland Workshop Report – Use of Handheld GPS for Recollections of a Founder Member, Helen Harris Survey, Bob Bruce Devonshire Black Tin, Chris Kelland Celebration of Tinner’s Great Courts at Chagford,

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