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Nant Mill Wood Shaft Mounds, Coedpoeth, Wrexham

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NPRN275800
Map ReferenceSJ25SE
Grid ReferenceSJ2809050530
Unitary (Local) AuthorityWrexham
Old CountyDenbighshire
CommunityMinera
Type Of SiteMINE SHAFT
PeriodPost Medieval
Description
1. A group of relict shaft mound features for early coal mining. These examples are most likely to represent small bell-pits for primitive digging of coal seams near the surface. Possibly dated from the eighteenth century.
Source: Cadw scheduling text.

2. An area of earthworks from bell pits or shallow shaft working in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
(Source: Collieries of Wales, RCAHMW)
B.A.Malaws, RCAHMW, 26 May 2011.