royfellows
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Having recently suffered a back injury doing silly things, I have been restricting myself to easy underground walk ins and surface mooching.
Yesterday I visited a site that I had discovered by chance on the OS map, it’s a small lead mine shown as “Lead Mine (Dis)” and “Chimney”. As it looked interesting I decided to take a look.
The mine is on open heath north east of Minera, and south of Bryntalog, at SJ 2307 5373. There is a track heading south to it but I could not find anywhere suitable to park, so rather unwisely decided to get to it from the south by a public path as an entry point to the open heath. In effect I found myself battling through heather and dead bracken to which my legs bear witness this morning.
Interesting little site, the chimney in very good condition although small, possibly restored at some time. The working had commenced as a trench working and then a shaft was sunk, which is well and truly open, merely covered over with a few rotting timbers, a real risk for the unwary. I have seen this on Minera Mountain at one place very similar. Two sets of holding down bolts, very likely base of a steam engine and a balance bob, also foundations of a boiler house.
At this time I can no longer get into aditnow, the font of all knowledge mining, so does anyone have any info?
I have arbitrarily christened it “Nant y ffrith” after the nearby stream.
Spent the afternoon mooching around Minera quarry, from their posting I suspect that Chris JC and Tom had a more interesting weekend.
Yesterday I visited a site that I had discovered by chance on the OS map, it’s a small lead mine shown as “Lead Mine (Dis)” and “Chimney”. As it looked interesting I decided to take a look.
The mine is on open heath north east of Minera, and south of Bryntalog, at SJ 2307 5373. There is a track heading south to it but I could not find anywhere suitable to park, so rather unwisely decided to get to it from the south by a public path as an entry point to the open heath. In effect I found myself battling through heather and dead bracken to which my legs bear witness this morning.
Interesting little site, the chimney in very good condition although small, possibly restored at some time. The working had commenced as a trench working and then a shaft was sunk, which is well and truly open, merely covered over with a few rotting timbers, a real risk for the unwary. I have seen this on Minera Mountain at one place very similar. Two sets of holding down bolts, very likely base of a steam engine and a balance bob, also foundations of a boiler house.
At this time I can no longer get into aditnow, the font of all knowledge mining, so does anyone have any info?
I have arbitrarily christened it “Nant y ffrith” after the nearby stream.
Spent the afternoon mooching around Minera quarry, from their posting I suspect that Chris JC and Tom had a more interesting weekend.
. I have a good lead book shall search for your mine Later.
