You might like this link, Stubob – it’s an article by John Barnatt and Garth Thomas about the evidence pointing to copper mining at Ecton Hill in prehistoric times. It’s from ‘Mining History’ – there are lots of other editions on the website
pdmhs.com/
It must have been a significant place.
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Nice one.....we were up there for the Sycamore Cave, the burial there had a small copper axe made from local ore.