Exploring a Fire Clay Mine. The search for fossils

[@MartinZero]

The Northern Monkeys channel kzbin.info/door/N7TdXwfb4dBvTk678RM4TA

[@simonmcnicholas]

Great video lads just subbed

[@ExploreNorthernMonkeys]

Amazing day see you next time 💙💙💙💙

[@richardcowley4087]

I loved the Sigillaria fossil and those Clubmoss fossils very interesting could i visit that mine ?

[@pilpelet100]

The only thing that keeps my heart out of my mouth when you're doing these underground videos is the knowledge that if you're posting a video you must have got out safely! Thanks for another brilliant video.

[@MartinZero]

Yeah its when I go quiet its time to worry Ruth 😃

[@halcyondaystunes]

The Cornish Pasty theory is 100 percent right...They also used to fill one side with meat and the other with fruit so the miner would get a dessert with his meal too. The pasties were much bigger than what you buy these days but alot of bakeries in Cornwall still produce extra large pasties that are filled with meat but I've never found any with fruit in. Another great video guys...would love something like this in Cornwall to be honest. So much history there too.

[@oldgoat5589]

Bit like Bedfordshire "clangers" - savoury one end, sweet the other.

[@simonmcnicholas]

Morrison’s used to do one called “The Tin Miner” 3/4 Cornish 1/4 apple but they don’t anymore 😢 love those pasties

[@HylanderSB]

Get a camera and some coveralls and get cracking!

[@martynfoster1562]

It was the Welsh who invented the pasty.

[@Cowcow211]

I know I'm late to the party, but the Cornish pasties started in Lead Mines so that Miners wouldn't get lead poisoning from their hands.

[@brianartillery]

Brilliant, as always, Martin. It never fails to astonish me that most people probably know more about the moon or the wreck of the Titanic, than they do about what lies twenty or thirty feet underneath where they are walking. Yet again, one of your videos has made me think 'I did not know that.' Nice one. Thanks. "Having a brew in a strange place", might make for an interesting side series, Martin. It's a thought.

[@MartinZero]

Cheers Brian, yeah incredible place for a brew 😀

[@patrickrose1221]

From the start of my mining career to the end , I knew I was moving through a carboniferous forest where no human had ever been .

[@brianartillery]

@@patrickrose1221 - Thank you. That's a truly beautiful thought, and you're perfectly right. From a time when there were not even flowers, just plants like todays Cycads, ferns, and Horsetail. Nice one.

[@thesolidsnakealpha]

Absolutely mad. Whole thing could come down at any time. Titanium bollocks, Martin and crew👍👍

[@MartinZero]

Yeah it felt unstable but the again its not moved in over 100 years 😀 (Well bits have)

[@thesolidsnakealpha]

@@MartinZero was starting to get 'nutty putty cave' vibes at the beginning.. Just glad you're all fine!

[@nilo70]

Martin , you ROCK !

[@MartinZero]

Ha. 😃Thank you

[@UKAbandonedMineExplores]

He's right about the Cornish Pasty's, the large bit of pastry was so you could hold it with dirty hands. Welcome to my world, recording in mines, you need to do a lead mine, completely different sort of mine and much more interesting imho.

[@kakarikiIck]

One of my favourite videos, this one. Seeing that fossilised branch in the ceiling, fantastic!

[@MartinZero]

Thank you and yes wasnt it fantastic to see

[@GrinninPig]

Seen loads of coalified fossils of old extinct trees and plants come out of the coal mines back home, the detail was incredible

[@andrewmaurerandrew6801]

Absolute quality top man keep them coming 👍👍

[@MartinZero]

Thanks Andrew

[@bullettube9863]

Can you imagine working in these caves? Without electric lights just candles and oil lamps, smoke and the dampness, and the ever present threat of cave ins, it must have been hell for the men and boys working down there.

[@MartinZero]

Yeah it must have been bloody awful

[@bobingram6912]

That was b. brilliant, thanks to the Monkies for providing excellent info. For a moment I thought I was watching the opening sequence to Journey to the Centre of the Earth!!!!

[@MartinZero]

It felt like it Bob

[@tomsurbanexplore]

That was a brilliant video that thanks to the northern monkeys good fossils in the mine wonderful colours aswel glad James brought the tea 👍

[@MartinZero]

Thanks Thomas

[@jetsons101]

Great intro music. That has got to be the most unstable mine I have ever seen, I feel for the workers that worked it. Your finds are amazing, this video could be used in schools to teach kids to go out and explore and be more hands on in life. What a team you all made. Thanks for your "Hard" work on this explore, must have been hard on the back. Thanks for posting and stay safe.....

[@MartinZero]

Thanks Mike, glad you enjoyed

[@countesscable]

I can’t believe how unstable that mine was. That stuff just flakes away without effort, as kids we loved playing in the quarries and flaking off the shale.

[@ivanhockenhull2604]

Claustrophobic, Martin. You do suffer for your art. Colour photography was superb. Fire clay mines and fossils, what a combination. Magical, as always.

[@MartinZero]

Thanks Ivan, all new to me

[@christopherbraiden6713]

Thanks for the video Martin totally enjoyed this one. Loved the fossilised branches and amazing history of the different layers down there. A great learning adventure!!😎🐓🐓🐓🇬🇧💯

[@DavidSevern]

Light's... I love coloured illumination... 😍

[@MartinZero]

I love em too David

[@shirleylynch7529]

Wow that was wee bit scary but so enjoyable and interesting. So glad to see James brought your tea . Green milk too. Not as good as the blue but better than the red milk. Thank you for your brave mine explore. Really appreciate what you do for all of us fans Martin.

[@MartinZero]

Thanks Shirley. I made him bring green milk 😄

[@gafrers]

Fantastic

[@MartinZero]

Thank you sir

[@clairesutherland4868]

Very interesting video.

[@MartinZero]

Thanks Claire

[@t_ruth555]

Beautiful mine , loved the colours and the structure and the fossils. Apparently the miners took the cornish pasties in a tin bucket and would heat them up in the mine with a candle under the bucket . Fish is fantastic northen monkeys !!!!! Great video tfs. 🔴🟡🟢

[@MartinZero]

Hi Ruth, soup was amazing thank you. A bucket of pasties sounds great 😃

[@jonathanchalk2507]

Great show.

[@maggiefleuriot4427]

Thanks for the holiday down mine. Lotsa love from the farm.🤗🤗🤗

[@MartinZero]

Thanks Maggie

[@CarlosCorreia77]

Great video, team Martin!

[@MartinZero]

Thank you Carlos

[@King786_]

Excellent stuff! Getting more adventurous all the time!

[@andymoseley2230]

Wow that looked well iffy in places, thanks for the tour lads

[@MartinZero]

It was iffy Andy

[@bjorntoulouse7523]

I used to work on a fireclay factory, they made mortuary slabs among other things.

[@markthomas6045]

Nice explore there Martin! I've heard you complain more in a man-made concrete or stone tunnel, this place was definitely more dodgy than that! Thanks for taking us along!

[@mileshigh1321]

Seriously good tour with them! That mine looked a bit like the Alien ship from the movie Alien at times haha!

[@roytabberer7427]

Fascinating & interesting as always. I loved the enthusiasm shown by you all on your trip down the mine. Thank you very much.

[@MartinZero]

Thanks Roy, it was amazing

[@stevezurek7281]

Awesome vid boys keep up the great work 👍🇦🇺

[@MartinZero]

Thanks Steve

[@SueGirling68]

Hi Martin, Those metal strips could have been used on top of wooden rails to stop the wood wearing out, the use of metal strips was quite common back in the day as they were cheaper than buying actual rail. that fossilised fish was an awesome find, I've never heard of marine balls until I watched your video, they say you learn something new every day lol. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx 💖

[@MartinZero]

Thanks Sue, yes the whole place and those fossils were fascinating

[@rwalker9644]

Good to see jame s back taking care of you all - interesting underground eh xxxx

[@MartinZero]

Cheers , yeah the brew lad is back

[@richardjohn7991]

That was Amazing .Thanks Martin and all .

[@davedear929]

Great stuff Martin..never fails to entertain. Love the camaraderie between you guys. It makes a video..also Love the brews thanks James .

[@whiskeycook3323]

Thanks for another great video! I learn so much from your videos about your country’s rich history

[@MartinZero]

Thank you Marie

[@mkendallpk4321]

Another wonderful adventure. Thank you Martin and thanks also to the Northern Monkeys too.

[@MartinZero]

Thanks you very much

[@mordanthamster2753]

Great video, Martin... Amazing colours and textures down that mine.

[@MartinZero]

Thanks, yeah whole place incredible

[@MrAsBBB]

Simply a fantastic video. This is why we watch Martin. It is so exciting! I wish this was around when I was a kid doing history. History would have been my thing.. My story lessons were all Marie Antoinette and very little else!

[@gresvig2507]

Great explore, would love to go into a place like that and see everything. My back, however, hurts just watching.

[@douglasthompson296]

Mine too!!!!

[@MartinZero]

Yeah it was sketchy in places

[@icewizzard666]

Straight away, you never felt more professional with overalls and you've sent James in first ha ha- already looks an amazing vid! The layers on those seams - wow! And the colours! The eye of Saron looked awesome! The wooden branch looked bloody awesome! Fair play to James - always prepared - the little boy scout lol Some amazing photos towards the end, it must have been an awesome experience! Cracking video Mart - really enjoyed watching it!

[@Pete4000uk]

Utterly amazing and captivating!

[@timothyclarke7689]

Absolutely brilliant. Great photography. Great fossils of trees no longer in existence. I wish that I could have been there with you.

[@MartinZero]

It was an amazing thing to see Timothy

[@roosalwaysthesun8759]

Hi you all, loved it all, thank you so much for sharing, awesome what nature can do. Love Roos 🙋🏻‍♀️🌹💪🏻👊🏻👍🏻🥰

[@MartinZero]

Thanks very much Roos, hope your well

[@roosalwaysthesun8759]

@@MartinZero Thanks Martin, when I see you, always 🙋🏻‍♀️

[@sadieals]

Really enjoyed this one Martin. Very interesting but always something to make us laugh too. Could do with James here making the tea ☕️ 👍

[@MartinZero]

I wouldnt fully recommend his brews Helen

[@hotbutteredcrumpet]

Brilliant video as always Martin 👍, you guys were a lot better equipped than some other explorers that go into abandoned mines!, even had your brew & Eccles cake😂

[@MartinZero]

Oh yes, gotta have supplies 😃

[@glengraham7080]

It would be very un-British not to have a brew along the way ☺️

[@phph1731]

Brilliant. Learn a lot from your explorations, but this threw up a load of new stuff for me to find out more about. Thanks to all.

[@MartinZero]

Yeah same here, all new to me

[@Tom-gr6nx]

excellent video martin well done an ancestor of mine was killed in a mine he worked in in 1910 a runaway truck hit a prop and the fireclay caved in on him he was only 19.

[@ColinHarperSummerson]

Cracking video Martin , really, really interesting, love fossils, envious of you explore 😊, thank you for sharing your exploration, brilliant 👍🙂

[@MartinZero]

Thanks Colin it was a fascinating place

[@andykopgod]

Really enjoyed that video, amazing to see something that millions of years old. Fantastic, hope we see more of the Northern Monkeys also 👍🏆

[@ExploreNorthernMonkeys]

💙💙💙

[@MartinZero]

Thanks Andrew. Hopefully more to come. Great guys

[@patrickrose1221]

Beautiful colours in the geology, that lad's enthusiasm is absolutely mint . Loved it aye : )

[@MartinZero]

Thanks Patrick

[@MartinDHayes]

Another fantastic journey and history lesson. I must give you and the boys total props for crawling around under ground like that. Thanks for teaching me things I never knew and seeing it through the cameras as you see it. Great job! Cheers!!

[@MartinZero]

Thanks very much Martin

[@briancopp4024]

Fascinating video Martin. Stay safe , looking forward to your next explore.

[@MartinZero]

Thanks Brian, hope yer well

[@bd4_l]

Yes excellent video. Insane AF how the rock formations were in there.

[@MartinZero]

Absolutely brilliant to look at

[@victorgoncalves2442]

Another great video Martin , very interesting those marine balls . Thumbs up

[@MartinZero]

Thanks Victor, fascinating stuff

[@grimsmith1]

Excellent stuff! Getting more adventurous all the time! Just a point to explain the Cornish pasty crust - As the guy said, you wouldn't want to eat it, all that shit from your dirty fingers all over it, but here in Devon and Cornwall we have the Mine Knockers! These are a small species of goblin who live underground, but not often in the mines, just right next to them. Since they live underground, the knockers know where all the best ore veins are and will 'Knock' on the other side of the mine walls to let the miners know where to dig. All in return for a few scraps of food left for them. Their favourite is the pasty crust and when anyone leaves a crust for the knockers, go back the next day and it will all be gone! And no use saying it was rats, the knockers eat them as well! Moral of the story - always leave some scraps for the knockers! They can lead you to wealth! (Or doom if don't leave anything!). Be warned!

[@MartinZero]

Thanks for that. I will bare that in mind in the next Mine. Maybe try and see one 😃

[@HylanderSB]

Cute story.

[@grimsmith1]

@@HylanderSB Not only cute, it's historically true!

[@HylanderSB]

@@grimsmith1 …except for the existence of the knockers, sure!

[@catzkeet4860]

Yep you had to leave the crusts for the knockers or they’d bring down the ceiling on you.

[@Paul-od2ct]

Belting vid that 👍

[@MartinZero]

Thanks Paul

[@johnathanrowley2707]

This is amazing, the colours and different forms of the rocks, the wood after it got fossailised it turned into coal while bones basically turned into rock

[@MartinZero]

Yes. I have that fossilised branch

[@Andy-From-England]

Ho Martin another great video I know they still finding these tunnels and voids beneath the earth

[@MartinZero]

Thanks Andy

[@marieseaward9891]

Brilliant.. enough said 🤗

[@MartinZero]

Thank you Marie

[@soundgroundermusic]

Well done the team. You are getting good at this Martin, great adventure.

[@MartinZero]

Thank you, yeah great place

[@carlbentley80]

Fantastic and very interesting.

[@stevej4847]

Another interesting video as always Martin. Fireclay used to be extracted along with coal from the mines under Winter Hill. Some of these were worked up until the 1960's. There is the remains of a tramway which can be clearly seen running downhill from near the Sportsmans cottage on Georges lane, where the drift mine entrance used to be, towards Ormstons Farm and then onwards to where Hepworths clay pipe manufacturers used to be. The clay was used to make clay pipes for underground services such as sewers.

[@catzkeet4860]

What a bloody amazing place!!! You were giving me claustrophobia but nonetheless, amazing!! Thank you for this.

[@harbin1956]

Totally fascinating as always, would love to have gone down there if I was a few years younger

[@MartinZero]

Yes, a bit dangerous but amazing to see

[@rontanser9369]

That was really interesting Martin , It’s amazing to think those fossilised trees and animals I’ve been down there millions of years

[@MartinZero]

Incredible isnt it Ron

[@martiehensley4452]

Thank you Martin for a another grate video.

[@MartinZero]

Thanks very much Martie

[@rheingau2011]

Really fascinating video! It's one thing to see a fossil inside a museum, but to be there where tree fell. Amazing😀👍it must be an awesome feeling for you.

[@MartinZero]

It was Peter. To think that was where it fell millions of years ago was an incredible feeling

[@petergrant2366]

Another little gem Martin, brilliant as always, you are brave.

[@MartinZero]

Cheers Peter

[@vapingtrucker2850]

Wow Martin that was so good to watch very fascinating can ya do more like that very interesting

[@MrSteffen2020]

Think you Martin for nice video see you next week

[@MartinZero]

Thanks very much Steffen

[@williamwelbourn7932]

Brilliant video as usual. I look forward to a new video on a Monday morning, great stuff.

[@MartinZero]

Thanks William

[@sallyford-fitzwilliams1724]

Small world , Martin. We stopped on that lay-by 5 weeks ago while on holiday in the UK. I'm just glad we didn't know about the mine then or Carl would've wanted to explore.

[@Jimyjames73]

Amazing underground scenes & rock / coal formations Martin 🙂🚂🚂🚂

[@lazyhazeldaisy9596]

Fascinating stuff Martin it did look well dodgy though and very cramped, I am surprised geologist don't look in to it more with the finds the guy's were making. Thanks again stay safe one and all. x

[@MartinZero]

Yeah it was very flaky in there. Fascinating all those fossils

[@zeberdee1972]

Back breaking but worth the look :-) , cool video as always .

[@MartinZero]

Yeah it was amazing to see all that

[@davidmaslanka3145]

What you described as an "eye" in to roof of one section looks to me very much like the negative of a tree trunk where it flairs out into the roots at ground level. Perhaps the tree itself was mined out of the way years ago or simply fell into the shaft and was carted off or disposed of.

[@nesleinf]

I would not dare to go that deep into those mines with all that loose rock everywhere. Good that you dare. Gave us all some stunning pictures. Missed to be informed of the precise lokation, but that might be a secret? Love from Denmark

[@matthewrail6065]

Another great video Martin

[@MartinZero]

Thanks Matthew

[@iainpaton7129]

Cool video friend thanks again

[@MartinZero]

Thanks very much Iain

[@robertmaitland09]

Brilliant, your content gets better and better, love it.

[@MartinZero]

Thank you Neil

[@maryseeker7590]

Excellent! Enjoyed!

[@MartinZero]

Thank you Mary

[@Phil-M0KPH]

Cracking explore, but somewhat scary looking roof. Very wise to let apprentice James go in first. 20:50 that’s definitely fossilised bubble wrap!

[@MartinZero]

Yeah very flaky that rock Phil

[@mudlarkingmarionette]

Incredibly awesome : ) brave lads and fountains of knowledge

[@MartinZero]

Thank you

[@holmesjunction]

20:30 We're voting for tree bark impression. My wife did 'A' level geology so I'm not arguing! Rather you than me, but VERY entertaining - stay safe!

[@KHGrinderboy]

Awesome yet again! Thank you

[@MartinZero]

Thank you

[@oldmanhuppiedos]

I find it strange that the mine is freely accessible. Quite an interesting visit.

[@MartinZero]

I must admit I couldnt believe it when. they showed me an open hole

[@stethemeterman1968]

Great video over too soon

[@MartinZero]

Thanks Steve

[@Patriotmagnets]

Excellent episode 👏👌

[@MartinZero]

Thanks very much

[@malcolmcog]

Lead on Macduff ! Thats a Scots saying, my Mum always said it when we went exploring ! But anyway, another grat video of an underground place, my favourite places are old mines, though I usually keep to disused metal mines as the air is usually no problem.

[@MartinZero]

Cheers Malcolm. I have yet to go into a metal mine

[@malcolmcog]

@@MartinZero The Peak District is full of old lead mines, and are great to explore !

[@catzkeet4860]

I believe William Shakespeare might have dibs on “Lead on MacDuff”, only it’s actually “Lay on MacDuff” and it’s from Macbeth

[@lindamccaughey6669]

Wow that was fantastic. Would give my eye teeth to have been there looking at the rocks. Did you take petrified wood home? Hope so it was fantastic. What a time you all had one of my fave videos. Thanks so much for taking me along. Please stay safe and take care

[@Pricklyhedgehog72]

Really cool...

[@MartinZero]

Thank you

[@Littlewing6was9]

Good stuff as always boys.

[@MartinZero]

Thanks very much

[@danielbarrows7144]

Bunch of old fossils in a mine and James as well! 😂 😜👷🏻 British mines are very different from the mines I've seen in the US and Canada! On KZbin of course 😀 Martin you're branching out, pun intended.

[@MartinZero]

Definitely, those branches were amazing to see

[@Dave50plus]

great stuff Martin

[@MartinZero]

Thanks David

[@jeffreybail353]

at 20:50 is a piece of petrified building material or a print of surface it has been removed from it was still leaking rust so it was metal. Martin take samples next time of all the finds and photograph it where it came from

[@MartinZero]

I bought one out

[@sparkyprojects]

Although you didn't know what fireclay was, you have probably seen it in several places, most notably in a fireplaace where it's the creamy coloured lining, held together with fireclay cement

[@MartinZero]

Ahh yes I realise now

[@ahaveland]

Fascinating, and super sketchy. Glad you got out safely! I used to live in Blackrod near Bolton 50 years ago and explored a lot of places as a kid but never found a mine that was still open. Were some still open shafts though which were scary AF!

[@MartinZero]

Very sketchy that place Andy

[@ahaveland]

@@MartinZero Yeah, seriously! Looks like a sneeze could bring the whole lot down, but it'll have survived a few tremors over the century which would have made anything fall that was about to fall... Love your adventures from around my childhood home!

[@helenemoody3869]

Lush strata... Large not eye of sauron is it an amonnite? Jet is fossilized monkey puzzle trees, not far away in Whitby... We have shale beds in Dorset. Kimmeridge particularly. They cracked Dorset Jurassic Coast last spring during lockdown. Keep exploring for those of us who's bones are too tired now. Loving this explore x

[@nathanlloyd1739]

Brews up and another explore 👍

[@dawnlovejoy8917]

Great, as long as it's not UHT milk. 😄

[@MartinZero]

UHT Milk the devils work

[@MartinZero]

Always. brew won the go Nathan

[@dawnlovejoy8917]

@@MartinZero Yep UHT absolutely the worst