The Crown Mines

Abandoned on the exposed cliffs of the Cornish Coast and battered by the Atlantic sea, the Crown Mines of Botallack stand as a monument to a bygone era of brutal hardship for those who worked in their dark and dangerous depths. Ragged, black rock rises up from the ocean, telling a story of fortunes won, the despair of lives lost and the inevitable tide of change.

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