The Upper Crosscut to Lill Shaft is a haulage adit in the grounds of the Old All Saints Mine.
Its entrance portal is built of natural stone and lies at the level of the main feeder channel (450 m above sea level). The crosscut was used to carry waste rock out of the mine by narrow-gauge railway, across a steel bridge to the spoil heap on the other side of the road, and also to bring in power water to drive the shaft’s water-column winding engine.
Lill Shaft, reached by the Lower and Upper Crosscuts, gave access to the Old All Saints Mine in the final period of its operation. A water-column winding engine supplied by the Kachelmann engineering works in Vyhne was installed in the shaft in 1882 and put into operation in 1884. It ran until 1961 and is the only one of its kind to survive today.
Other technical structures lie close to the crosscut, such as the feeder channel from the Hodrušianka stream and the entrance portal of the lower Riesen crosscut.
