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Eluvial tin streamworks, Whitchurch Common
Grid ref: SX 5354 7507
On walking routes: Abbot's Way
Main image: Photo: Philip Halling (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Wikimedia Commons
- Period: Bronze Age
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1020089)
- Grid reference: SX 5354 7507 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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Crossing wallabrook. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“On New Year's night the buckets in the prison froze solid in four hours. The running stream that supplied all the buildings with water was ice to the bottom ; the prisoners quenched their thirst with snow, and huddled together at night to prevent being frozen ; their breath, condensing on the ...”
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