Feedback request: Hippocrepis comosa (210709_406)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #304512

Taxon:	Fabaceae: Hippocrepis comosa L. ("Horseshoe Vetch")
Filed in taxon folder:	Fabaceae: Hippocrepis comosa L. ("Horseshoe Vetch")
Collected by:	Charles Ottley Groom
Collection date:	1851
Locality:	Great Britain, VC6 North Somerset, Weston-super-Mare, ST36, Lead Mine Hill
ex herb:	Charles Ottley Groom
Institution:	Bolton Museum (BON)
Accession number:	30-07-14456
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fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

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Documented by oldnick on 28^th July 2010.

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oldnick wrote

Collector inferred from handwriting - site inferred from C O G's other collections in this area around this period - but I have not located Lead Mine Hill; C O G has a sheet of this species collected by W R Crotch from Worle Hill in 1850.

[Chris Liffen]

as a thought, perhaps lead mine hill is just descriptive -
Lead mining took place around Weston
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Another ore common on Worlebury Hill was galena, a lead ore. This too, was mined, well into the 19th century. Remnants of the industrial landscape can be seen in the "gruffy ground" of pits and spoil heaps on Weston Hill. or
http://www.weston-super-mare.com/newhistory/newhistory.html
or from ancestry gazette
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Worle/
"WORLE, a parish in the hundred of Winterstoke, .......There are mines of lead and calamine, but they are no longer wrought."