If you like this wait until you see part two. Also would like to thank everyone for watching our videos and we are almost at 10k subs. Thanks Al & Ioan
Greetings from the American West. It's a riveting deal watching you all delve into such familiar looking Victorian underground, yet it's peppered with top-shelf, uniquely British objects... like some kind of alternate dimension to my eyes. That last ore car was special, (as you know) intact wooden cars in their original workings are incredibly rare now. Looks far older than anything we'd ever encounter here since our hardrock escapades began in this part of the country around the 1870s or so. Your passion for history and adventure is palpable, keep up the good work!
I am nearly 5,000 miles from you here in Texas and am fully speechless. Such an amazing explore. Congratulations gentlemen. Thank you for braving the elements and landscape to bring this to us. Wish I was along with you physically but virtually will certainly do! LETS GET TO THAT 10K SUBSCRIBERS! Well deserved. Y’all are amazing! 👊🏼
Please please preserve and take those amazing artifacts out and get them looked after. They stick around too long and in too good nick to be left. What history right there
This video is the prime definition of the thrill of the unknown! Just knowing that you were the first people to step foot where no man has been for 120 years has to be exhilarating! Finding all the artifacts frozen in time helps to bring the mine back to life, in telling its story. Anxiously awaiting the next video from this mine explore! Keep up the great work and stay safe! Have a Happy New Year!
Really cool mine. Hard to imagine the amount of drilling, blasting, mucking, and hauling those miners had to do to open up such huge areas. Those metal dynamite boxes at 8:54 looked like the warming boxes used over a fire to thaw frozen sticks. Dynamite loses potency when it gets too cold. It doesn't explode when it overheats but more than one mine had a very vigorous fire when someone forgot they were thawing the stuff out.
The first wooden smoking pipes were made in Germany in the very early 1600s. But they were only used to breath in the smoke of tobacco that was burned in something else. It wasn't till the mid-1800s that the wide spread use of wooden pipes replaced pipes made of other materials like clay and porcelain. Many people have claimed to have been the first to make wooden pipes of briar, but the most reliable thesis suggests they were first made in Saint-Claude, France. Tobacco smoking pipes are still commonly made from briar wood. I have a few myself that I smoke occasionally.
I loved caving when I was young and this brings back such fond memories of doing very similar stuff and being told never to divulge the locations of a lot of the sites.
@@davidrockefeller2007 Unfortunately, even back then people were going in to caves and old mines and removing or destroying stalagmites and other natural formations and also artifacts from old mines. All these things should be left for future explorers to enjoy. Hence not telling people where some of the more hidden and therefore untouched places were.
@@LostMines I thank you for all of your postings in 2020. It gives me shivers when your showing mining going back to Roman times. I'm so glad I found your site and look forward to many more excellent posting in 2021. Nothing but Peace and good health to you and yours!
What a find! Lads keep up the good work, and we hope you do a detailed recon in this mine. There are so meny cool finds, Yes you found "gold" in this mine. Thank you. Have a grand new year.
Pipes typically use Rose, Pear, Briar Wood. Sturdy as that one shows. Wow, looks like it was just used. Wow, wow, wow Explosive box and canisters. we don't find that over here, as you say. Blimy is right.
Ok guys great explore, got a get that explosive box its complete and amazing. knowing it wont last much longer needs to be saved.keep up the great work
Interesting and great artifacts, Nitro glycerin is quite chemically stable and doesn't degrade easily, at first it was absorbed onto saw dust and later diatomaceous earth like fullers earth.
@@88Scooby88 box would be OK leave explosive cans , but hopefully not many know location , as some crazy will try to recover and use them for god knows what
Just discovered and enjoying your channel. I've done a lot of exploring of the north Wales underground slate mines but it looks like you have more than enough to keep you occupied in mid Wales!
You did right by not touching the explosives! I found half a stick of dynamite next to some detonators, in Knock Murton iron mine, in Cumbria, back in the early 80's. It was is a paper bag, so I didn't realise what it was until I had unwrapped it. It was a yellow clay like material wrapped in paper, about 30mm diameter. I had the RH end of the stick, on the paper was written 'amite' and Nobel ! I put it down very carefully and climbed back down out of the very steep and loose stope. I worked with an Ex army munitions expert, he said it was likely to be very unstable as the nitro-glycerin can leach out over time. Those old haematite mines were pretty dodgy without the added 'excitement' of unstable explosives. Does any one know if it's still accessible? It was close to Cogra moss lake, next to a track through forestry . Love your channel, Paul in NZ
Wow...I felt like I was there with you guys. What an amazing explore! I've recently started watching ur channel and you have some of the best content I've seen...and so informative. You have gained a subscriber. I'm nearly 37 and I'm just getting back into caving and mine exploration, and your videos are really inspiring to me. Thankyou! I will be looking at booking a trip to your neck of the woods very soon!
I love all youre videos! Heyyy how come you make such sort videos?? Would you consider making a 30 or 45 minute long video these mines you find? These look very interesting but the videos are soo short haha
I hope you guys get mics eventually because I have you full volume. Commercials are going to be loud. Other than that, love your content. Cheers from the 🇺🇸
If you like this wait until you see part two.
Also would like to thank everyone for watching our videos and we are almost at 10k subs. Thanks Al & Ioan
Hell yeah. Amazing channel!
Excellent work, i doth my hat to you brave fellows. Mastery.
Cant thank you enough, so interesting.
@@tonytrimarchiat .c
Your very welcome 🙏 my friend.
Greetings from the American West. It's a riveting deal watching you all delve into such familiar looking Victorian underground, yet it's peppered with top-shelf, uniquely British objects... like some kind of alternate dimension to my eyes. That last ore car was special, (as you know) intact wooden cars in their original workings are incredibly rare now. Looks far older than anything we'd ever encounter here since our hardrock escapades began in this part of the country around the 1870s or so. Your passion for history and adventure is palpable, keep up the good work!
I should note there was earlier development in the West of course, but where I, myself reside didn't see much boom until the 1870s or thereabouts.
I am nearly 5,000 miles from you here in Texas and am fully speechless. Such an amazing explore. Congratulations gentlemen. Thank you for braving the elements and landscape to bring this to us. Wish I was along with you physically but virtually will certainly do! LETS GET TO THAT 10K SUBSCRIBERS! Well deserved. Y’all are amazing! 👊🏼
Glad you enjoyed it, lets go 10K~ we are close!
Please please preserve and take those amazing artifacts out and get them looked after. They stick around too long and in too good nick to be left. What history right there
This video is the prime definition of the thrill of the unknown! Just knowing that you were the first people to step foot where no man has been for 120 years has to be exhilarating! Finding all the artifacts frozen in time helps to bring the mine back to life, in telling its story. Anxiously awaiting the next video from this mine explore! Keep up the great work and stay safe! Have a Happy New Year!
Fantastic artifact finds! Not jealous at all! What we all dream about finding!
That was really fun to watch. Great finds. Thanks for the trip.
Those are some cool artifacts. Looks like they were collected by past explorers and placed there for others to view. Thanks for sharing, and be safe!
Really cool mine. Hard to imagine the amount of drilling, blasting, mucking, and hauling those miners had to do to open up such huge areas. Those metal dynamite boxes at 8:54 looked like the warming boxes used over a fire to thaw frozen sticks. Dynamite loses potency when it gets too cold. It doesn't explode when it overheats but more than one mine had a very vigorous fire when someone forgot they were thawing the stuff out.
Great artifacts and ore cars! Splendid exploration!!
Many thanks!
The first wooden smoking pipes were made in Germany in the very early 1600s. But they were only used to breath in the smoke of tobacco that was burned in something else. It wasn't till the mid-1800s that the wide spread use of wooden pipes replaced pipes made of other materials like clay and porcelain. Many people have claimed to have been the first to make wooden pipes of briar, but the most reliable thesis suggests they were first made in Saint-Claude, France. Tobacco smoking pipes are still commonly made from briar wood. I have a few myself that I smoke occasionally.
always full of history come to UK and explore with us!
Thanks for sharing. Some really great artefacts there.
Thanks for watching!
Fascinating mine, looking forward to seeing the next episode. Take care and stay safe, many thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for sharing your adventures.. 👍🙏✌
Hi Ioan, that was one of the best ever, look forward to your next visit there.
Amazing cave! Breathtaking how you climb that old ladders and floors.
A million thumbs up 👍good find!!
super cool mine guys. those old carts were awesome. cant wait for part2
I really enjoy your mines videos. You come across as really nice guys and you’ve got a great channel. Well done! 👍🇬🇧
I loved caving when I was young and this brings back such fond memories of doing very similar stuff and being told never to divulge the locations of a lot of the sites.
Why the secret?
@@davidrockefeller2007 Unfortunately, even back then people were going in to caves and old mines and removing or destroying stalagmites and other natural formations and also artifacts from old mines. All these things should be left for future explorers to enjoy. Hence not telling people where some of the more hidden and therefore untouched places were.
The end shot .. that hanging wall looks like polished marble! Can't wait for part 2 to see what it is .. looks incredible! Thanks for sharing!
Amazing find. So much history buried beneath the ground we don't know is there
Simply amazing tons of artifacts great find guy's
All those artifacts and the condition of them. Quite amazing i must say.
next weeks video even better!
From America. Have to say this is an awesome channel and this last video was “grand.” Looking forward to your next production.
Wow, Fantastic finds 🙂
Absolutely amazing seeing that pipe!!!
Wow , what a find well done ..keen to see more 👍.
Pete Australia
Wow, amazing, thanks for sharing, brave man only would explore that cave.
What great finds of years gone by left by the old miners thank you
This channel keeps getting better and better!
Thanks
Yep i second that!
Wow we...👍
That was awesome! You must show us more!
Amazing, from start to finish. I hope those marvellous finds spark a preservation effort 😊 Well done guys! 🙌🕊🇬🇧
That was truly amazing, thank you!
You're very welcome!
@@LostMines I thank you for all of your postings in 2020. It gives me shivers when your showing mining going back to Roman times.
I'm so glad I found your site and look forward to many more excellent posting in 2021.
Nothing but Peace and good health to you and yours!
What a find! Lads keep up the good work, and we hope you do a detailed recon in this mine. There are so meny cool finds, Yes you found "gold" in this mine. Thank you. Have a grand new year.
Thanks! Will do!
Zi don’t know how you have the bottle too go down so deep,I feel sick just watching.these films are highly addictive watching 😃👍👍
The bottle? 🧐 that’s a new one
Yeah I’m scared to go in The backyard when it’s dark haha
YES!!!! Day made better, then i see there is a 2nd video to wait for and it got even better!!!
a find and a half really enjoyed look forward to part 2
What a great find! Nice work guys.
Reminds me of going under houses in hand dug tunnels "with plenty of space to work " except my jobs never have plenty of room .
That is a truly amazing explore, thank you for sharing your adventures. Stay safe. 👍👍
Another awesome video!!! Much better than anything one can find on the History or Discovery Channels. Keep them coming! 👍🏽
Amazing artifacts😊
Nadolig llawen
Awesome Christmas present! Thanks fellas, happy holidays! "Wowee!", your enthusiasm is absolutely brilliant! Never lose it
Keep exploring guys 😁
Stay safe 👍
Fantastic exploration guys!
Thanks for watching
Short video,but you make my day. Thanks!
Lets goooo! Looks amazing 👏
You already know!
Man I love that deep mine exploration in other countries!
Easily the most amazing mine artifacts I've ever seen. Wow!
You guys are awesome, never change!
Thanks bud
Brilliant Video.
Pipes typically use Rose, Pear, Briar Wood. Sturdy as that one shows. Wow, looks like it was just used.
Wow, wow, wow Explosive box and canisters. we don't find that over here, as you say. Blimy is right.
What a find. Well done.
Wow We!
Awesome fun. Just subscribed. Greetings from Oregon U.S.A. ☮️
Thank you!Thank you!
Welcome!
Greta video guys... well done
Wow we! That was cool
Wow, your hole goes straight into a huge stope :) I'd suggest your the first since that was closed, wow. Wow, amazed that cart still holding water!
How amazing was that pipe!!!
This is a place of dreams, great find well done
Ok guys great explore, got a get that explosive box its complete and amazing. knowing it wont last much longer needs to be saved.keep up the great work
Really gave me a 1985 vibe of Edge Of Darkness, found everything but the Plutonium.
We saw all this because of you, I liked it very much.
Nice one Ladd's.👍
What amazing finds
When I saw the zincite I thoughht cave seagulls. LOL. Thanks guys . you are very brave.
Wow guys that was amazing lucky man
Interesting and great artifacts, Nitro glycerin is quite chemically stable and doesn't degrade easily, at first it was absorbed onto saw dust and later diatomaceous earth like fullers earth.
Guys, you just gotta take those explosive boxes to your museum! If only to preserve them, otherwise, they will just rot away! (And the mine carts!).
Wouldn't be touching them myself, they will be sweating at that age and volatile
@@88Scooby88 the mine carts are sweating and volatile?
@@Oscartherescuedog The dynamite, old dynamite sweats nitro
@@88Scooby88 box would be OK leave explosive cans , but hopefully not many know location , as some crazy will try to recover and use them for god knows what
@@scooterdogg7580 "and use them for god knows what"
There's a good chance they might use it on themselves during the recovery. 😆
Excellent exploration.
Beautiful ore carts and explosives tins!
If that ore cart could talk, what would it say? Awesome find, that cart made many workers jobs a little easier.
Climbing those ladders after more than a centruy like a kids playground then finding 🧨. Amazing!
Good bug out location. You guys might need this place in the future. Seriously! Stockpile food down there for a bad day. I would keep it quiet. 🤫
Haha yes absolutely
What an amazing find!
Briar is a knot in a tree that is tougher than the surrounding wood. Pipe bowls are made from that.
Great video. What a find!👍🏻🇬🇧
Not a clickbait, so cool!
Speechless!!!
nice to hear you know some minerals
Love the content, keep up the good work!!
Thank you for sharing! Saved one of the best for last!
Part two is amazing
@@LostMines When will you be posting it? Would be some amazing Sunday night viewing! :P
Next weekend
@@LostMines Guess I'll have to catch up on some of the classics I haven't seen yet!
Oooh, Look!! Explosives!!..... Nonchalantly lifts cover off...
Just discovered and enjoying your channel. I've done a lot of exploring of the north Wales underground slate mines but it looks like you have more than enough to keep you occupied in mid Wales!
Pretty sure you guys were the first back in those tunnels in decades.
You did right by not touching the explosives!
I found half a stick of dynamite next to some detonators, in Knock Murton iron mine, in Cumbria, back in the early 80's.
It was is a paper bag, so I didn't realise what it was until I had unwrapped it.
It was a yellow clay like material wrapped in paper, about 30mm diameter.
I had the RH end of the stick, on the paper was written 'amite' and Nobel !
I put it down very carefully and climbed back down out of the very steep and loose stope.
I worked with an Ex army munitions expert, he said it was likely to be very unstable as the nitro-glycerin can leach out over time.
Those old haematite mines were pretty dodgy without the added 'excitement' of unstable explosives.
Does any one know if it's still accessible? It was close to Cogra moss lake, next to a track through forestry .
Love your channel, Paul in NZ
Fantastic
Thanks 👍
Thank you too
Wow...I felt like I was there with you guys. What an amazing explore! I've recently started watching ur channel and you have some of the best content I've seen...and so informative. You have gained a subscriber. I'm nearly 37 and I'm just getting back into caving and mine exploration, and your videos are really inspiring to me. Thankyou! I will be looking at booking a trip to your neck of the woods very soon!
Merry Christmas to you guys and have a prosperous New year, keep up the University study work.
WowWee!
I've heard that the crystals from old dynamite are quite sensitive to touch and likely to explode.
Yeah, that was scary. That was a storyline on LOST about old dynamite that exploded when touched
7:12 Y'all trust that 140 year old ladder more than I trust my wife.
I love all youre videos! Heyyy how come you make such sort videos?? Would you consider making a 30 or 45 minute long video these mines you find? These look very interesting but the videos are soo short haha
Noted!
@@LostMines awesome thanks for hearing me out!
Nice Finds IN Part One What Will We See In Part Two. The artifacts you found will some of them go into your museum.
2020 highlight 👍
I hope you guys get mics eventually because I have you full volume. Commercials are going to be loud. Other than that, love your content. Cheers from the 🇺🇸
Hi there Merry Christmas to you , keep up the good work u do cause love the abandoned mine adventures :) always ever so intresting.
So amazing!
Thank you!!