A glorious evening, very autumnal although Autumn is still a week or so away. Cockshaw is a very abused part of the escarpment between Captain Cook’s Monument and Roseberry Topping. The sandstone cap was intensively quarried. Lower down the remains of a clamp, leaching pits and cisterns for the alum industry can be traced, except in summer of course when the bracken is too high. Small scale jet extraction took place in the 1700s and a century later Ayton Banks Ironstone Mine was established. Today the area is reverting to nature.
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