Explore a centuries-old cobalt mine rediscovered by a caving club.
Leather shoes, clay pipes, a mysterious inscription written in candle soot — these are just a few of the artifacts a group of cavers recently discovered in a centuries-old cobalt mine in Cheshire, England.
Members of the Derbyshire Caving Club have been exploring the Alderley Edge mine since the 1970s, leasing access from National Trust, a U.K.-based conservation charity. The caving group recently stumbled upon some personal items left behind in a previously unexplored part of the mine. The discovery was like opening a time capsule.
The fact that the miners left such an important tool behind makes Coghlan suspect that the miners"were told without much warning to collect their tools and move on," he said. "Our research so far has not identified who this could be," Coghlan said."Was it just an individual wanting to say, 'I was here,' or from a visit by a mine manager or estate owner, or could it have been to indicate the last day this mine was in use?""We found other more basic initials and numbers in what we believe were the 'cribs' or rest areas, as if someone had been learning and practicing their writing," Coghlan said.
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