← Browse Industrial Archaeology · Browse the directory
Main image: Photo: Sandy Gerrard, Wikimedia Commons
Keaglesborough Mine represents the industrial heritage of Dartmoor's tin and copper mining era, likely dating from the medieval period onwards when such workings became widespread across the moor. The mine workings and associated riddle pits (used to process ore) sit alongside Riddipit farmstead, reflecting the dual economy of moorland communities where mining and agriculture sustained each other.
Today the site appears as earthworks and surface features scattered across rough moorland. Visiting involves walking open ground to the north east of Norsworthy Bridge. The landscape here reveals the long occupation and use of Dartmoor by people working its resources, with the old workings now returned to heather and grass.
Contact us if you have information about this listing
Official record
Explore the area
Go deeper with Dartefacts
Dartefacts is a database of Dartmoor sites with far more close-up detail than we can show here, and it is the best place to go deeper. Dartefacts is free to use, and nobody has to pay to look things up. If you want more, a yearly subscription adds 10-figure grid references, map zoom down to 1:25,000 and lists to tick off the places you have visited, and it helps keep the site going. We would encourage you to subscribe.
Thoughts
Be the first to share a thought about Keaglesborough Mine near Norsworthy Bridge.
Share a thoughtKnow another Dartmoor place, tor or landmark we should include? Suggest a listing, it is free.
Suggest a listing