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Hexham Northumberland alstonite, 5 cm matrix, Carnegie label, 1840s.

Fallowfield Mine, some 3 miles north of Hexham and close to Hadrian’s Wall, is an old mine, worked since 1611 for lead ore and from 1842 for witherite. It closed in 1912


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