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As a teenager I collected bags of coal from the mine site. There was a very definite area of pit-head spoil. There was also the extraction of oil baring shale from this site.
Higher up than the mine site on Moleside Moor itself are a number of smallish circular pits which are either very marshy or filled with water. As far as I am aware local historians have never come to a conclusions as to what they are even though I believe one was once excavated. I recall reading that there were references to mining in the area in Elizabethan times.
If you walk higher up again to the base of Hamledon Hill, just the other side of the field that is beyond the Kings Highway, is a very large and quite obvious mining spoil heap.