Colt
Colour: Grey or dun
Breed: Dartmoor
Type: Riding pony
Foaled: 1936
Height: Thought to have been 12 hands

Sire: Dartmoor Pony
Dam: 6985 Foxhams Snowdrop

FOXHAMS MUNDIC Grey or dun   Foaled 1936 (thought to have been 12-0 and measured in November 1936)
Owner and Breeder, Mrs J. Oscar Muntz…..
Bred on Dartmoor
Sire: Dartmoor pony
Dam:  6985 Foxhams Snowdrop
The only reference for Foxhams Mundic, comes in Volume 23 (1937-1939) of The National Pony Stud Book, Dartmoor Pony Society, Mares 6985 Foxhams Snowdrop.
Foxhams Mundic is half brother to Foxhams Copper Orr foaled in 1934

Notes;
Mundic, sometimes called, ‘ fool’s gold,’ is “ a brassy yellow,” sulphide mineral

In an article from the field dated April 28th 1945 and entitled “30 years on the Tavey by West Country”. It states “…But early in the 19th Centry came the mining boom; copper mines sprang up all over the district, almost invariably in the river valleys, and pollution became very bad until about 1870 or 71, almost ever living thing in the Tavey was wiped out by an extra bad dose of mundic…” “…Towards the end of the 19th Centry the mining boom began to decline workings were exhausted and mines shut down; the pollution of the Tavey became less and the river began to restock itself, chiefly with sea trout from the head waters and the walkham, its principal tributary which had not been badly poisoned. By about 1890 the river swarmed with migratory trout…”

My grandfather Claude Bertram Collier, younger brother to Imogen Collier was a very keen fisherman.