Wezzit?

[ChrisJC]

Somewhere on the Great Orme, Pigeons Cave at a guess.

Chris.

 

[RobinGriffiths]

Yes and no!

 

[ChrisJC]

Elephants cave then!

Chris.

 

[RobinGriffiths]

Elephant's it is! The phreatic bits are at the top of quarried section.

 

[ChrisJC]

Try this:

 

[RobinGriffiths]

Looks like a slate chamber. Given the tree, I doubt if it's anything in Blaenau, so maybe a Corris and environs mine? I'll take a punt at Bryneglwys.

 

[ChrisJC]

Not Bryneglwys.

Chris.

 

[Ian Adams]

Looks like Wrysgan to me ...

 

[ChrisJC]

Not wrysgan. Robin is closer.

Chris.

 

[RobinGriffiths]

Must be a Corris job then. Not sure which break to surface though. Gaewern?

 

[ChrisJC]

Nope, but getting closer! (Corris area is correct)

Chris.

 

[RobinGriffiths]

Hmm..... A perusal of Google maps shows that some of Abercorris chambers might break surface.

 

[ChrisJC]

Closer!

 

[RobinGriffiths]

In that case, Foel Grochan - which I really do need to visit.

 

[ChrisJC]

Correct! Although Hen Gloddfa and Ceunant Ddu also have chambers like that open to day.

Over to you Robin.

Chris

 

[RobinGriffiths]

Another mine one. Sorry!!

 

[Ian Adams]

Betws Garmon (mine in the background) or is this another place that looks like another place that's not the place?

 

[RobinGriffiths]

Betws Garmon iron mine it is aka Ystrad/Silurian/Garreg Fawr. The outcrop pops out and mined in a number of places in the area - Betws Garmon, Llandegai, Ogwen and Aber. Rather than bringing the ore down this side of the hill and onto the Welsh Highland Railway - instead, they used an aerial ropeway to take it up over the shoulder for shipping out from the banks of Llyn Padarn in Llanberis.

As well as the scar going up the hillside, there are a couple of rather damp adits not far from this structure.

 

[Ian Adams]

This one might be too easy ....

I have a funny feeling this is known by two names, if you give me a correct answer and its the name I don't know (or have forgotten) I might look a bit dense

 

[langcliffe]

Shuttleworth, the entrance into Witches II?