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Fig. 38. Krasnoye Selo, Volkovysk dist. Shaft No 2 from excavation I

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thc bottom. In the Southern part of the shaft thcrc was an exploitation front 1.1 m long, 1.3 m wide with a height 75-80 cm (Fig. 38 b). The base of the exploitation front was 70 cm bclow the shaft bottom. From the east, the expIoitation front and the adjacent short gallery werc divided by Cretaceous rocks which were not extracted. The shaft wali on the west was widened further on into a gallery. It connected shaft No 2 with shaft No 1. The lcngth of this exploitation front was approx. 1.4 ni, the width at the exit from shaft No 2 — 80 cm, the height — 90 cm. The passage from the gallery to shaft No 1 was circular in section, and 70 cm diamcter. Its bottom rosc steeply in the direction of shaft No 1 (Fig. 38c). The shaft walls were formed by relatively strongly weathered Cretaceous rocks (Gurina 1976, 137).

Shaft No 20 was adjoining from the west shaft No 44, from the north shaft No 21 and from the north-east shaft No 13 (Fig. 39). The opcning was oval with a diamcter l.l-1.7m. The larger measurement ran from the west to thc east. The shaft was 2.7 m deep. The shaft walls from the west, north and south are relatively even. In the eastern part of the shaft there was an exploitation front 1 m long, 1.2 m high and 1 m wide (Gurina 1976, 150). Its presence was decisive for including the shaft in our category of minę workings.

Shaft No 124 had 1.5 m diameter and was 2.2 ni deep. The vertical part of the shaft was surrounded by

Fig. 39. Krasnoye Scio, Volkovysk dist. Shaft No 20 from excava-

lion III

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