Wheal Betsy Historic Tin Mine in Dartmoor

3D Model

A scan of Wheal Betsy, a historic tin mine engine house in Dartmoore National Park near Devon, UK. Created using a drone and using 250 images (sampled from a video).

The 19th century engine house known as Wheal Betsy pumping house, 370m south west of Cholwell, lies within a well known mining area, but is the only fully standing engine house of its type on Dartmoor. It has been monumentalised and preserved in a dramatic location and is perhaps one of the most easily recognised landmarks on the moor. Representing the important technological improvements of the 19th century industrial age of invention and innovation, whilst set in an incredibly rich historic landscape it encapsulates the changes and developments in industrial activity and the social and economic conditions which could engender both success and failure.