SKEARS FIRESTONE LEVEL
   
Not far from High Skears Farm near Middleton in Teesdale.  Skears Firestone Level is a long adit where it is still possible to see the portal from the far end.  There are several passages branching off and a ladder climb from a bridge about halfway along leads down to some interesting workings and nice calcite flowstone formations which have been gated off to preserve them.
   
Skears Firestone Level
Skears Firestone Level adit
Skears Firestone Level
Skears Firestone Level
Skears Firestone Level
Chamber in Skears Firestone Level
Skears Firestone Level
Branch tunnel off Skears Firestone Level
Skears Firestone Level
Remains of an old ore chute
Skears Firestone Level
Me in Skears Firestone Level
Skears Firestone Level
A nice, calcited passage
Skears Firestone Level
An old wheelbarrow in Skears Firestone Level
Skears Firestone Level
Calcite flowstone in the lower section

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