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Welsh Wezzit
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shotlighter
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No, but getting wamer.
tomferry
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Tree castle water wheel ? It’s not there anymore sadly
shotlighter
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Not familiar with this one. Any more details?
RobinGriffiths
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I'd also vote for Trecastell. A big mine near Llangeleynin in the Conwy Valley. A lot of workings were accesible around the 60s , but the entire site is now obliterated. The wheel structure on this website looks very similar.
Category: Trecastell Mine
This is somewhere we'd been aware of for a while, having seen the chimney above the road a couple of years ago and putting it on the "to do" list. Finally, we found time to have a good look around,...
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shotlighter
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Thanks very much Tom and Robin, I think you've finaly solved the mystery for me. We stayed regularly in my great Aunts caravan near Dyserth and thats where I thought it was.
We also stayed in a carvan in the Conwy Valley quite often though! Memory playing tricks after nearly 60 years.
Cheers!
We also stayed in a carvan in the Conwy Valley quite often though! Memory playing tricks after nearly 60 years.
Cheers!
shotlighter
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Now back to the Wezzit.
This chamber is quite close to a large 19th cent. shaft.
This chamber is quite close to a large 19th cent. shaft.
RobinGriffiths
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It's not the Orme Bronze Age mine near Vyvyan's Shaft pre show-mine ?
shotlighter
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Is the correct answer!
(BTW Robin & Tom, Trecastell Mine is about a mile across the valley, from where we stayed in the 60's & the topography matches what I recall, so spot on!)
RobinGriffiths
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I'm off for a wander tomorrow, so there could well be something I can post when I get back. Watch this space....
RobinGriffiths
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Wasn't a particularly nice day in the end, and photos were crap. However. Some workings. This shows an excavation along a vein leading to an area with a lot of spoil at the top. There's an ore processing area some distance away. I'll post some others (still crap) over the next few days.
RobinGriffiths
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Not in Gwydyr!
RobinGriffiths
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No. Not Migneint and not copper.
But that sounds like a visit. (A very wet footed one I would guess)
But that sounds like a visit. (A very wet footed one I would guess)
RobinGriffiths
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This is a track leading from workings towards processing area.
RobinGriffiths
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Unusually, listed as zinc and managanese, indeed one of its names alludes to the later. The next photo will probaly give the game away.
Graigwen
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This clue caused me a lot of difficulty as I thought I ought to recognise the photos. I now realise it is a site I refused to visit myself in 1972 as it would compromise the purity of my scientific method. Surely it must be Moelwyn Mine alias Mango?
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RobinGriffiths
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Yes. That's the one. It is Moelwyn (Zinc) Mine/ Pwll Mango. Odd that it doesn't have lead, but maybe even the zinc moniker was to raise its profile from being a lowly managnese mine in the eyes of investors? I think that some workings were ecountered when the alignment of the Ffestiniog Railway was re-routed to enable flooding of the reservoir in the early 70s.
