So in todays video we return to a mine that we have explored before, part of the workings of old wheal jane in Cornwall.
On previous trips we had discovered several artefacts related to the storage of Dynamite and Gelignite in the mine, so we thought we would dedicate an entire video to looking at these old artefacts left behind when the mine finally shut down and was abandoned in the early 1900s.
Unfortunately time and the damp conditions has badly eroded away these items, and they have even degraded slightly in the trips over the last 10 years of visiting them, so a decision was made to recover one of the old paper instruction leaflets so that a copy could be preserved for future generations.
These are of course totally empty paper leaflets and contain no trace of explosive material in any way at all.
Sadly some of the wooden boxes have gone missing, we think that maybe other explorers have taken them which is a shame as i never got a chance to video several of these. Its also suprising as the mine can only be accesed via a long drop in using ropes and harnesses so its not the kind of place that explorers would typically remove things from.
Luckily there is still one with some writing still on (just about) which is very well hidden in the mine so we do get to show you that one.
I also experiment in this one with the use of a 360 degree action camera to get some extra shots of different angles.
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Ben
6 апр 2023
