Angleton Iron Workings, Bridgend

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NPRN300385
Map ReferenceSS98SW
Grid ReferenceSS9041082060
Unitary (Local) AuthorityBridgend
Old CountyGlamorgan
CommunityCoity Higher
Type Of SiteIRON FURNACE
PeriodPost Medieval
Description
Located at the foot of a west-facing slope just above the floodplain of the Ogwr, the furnace survives as a semi-circular depression measuring 4.8m north-south by 3.5m. The walls were probably buried when the railway was constructed on the terrace above it and a retaining wall has truncated it on the west; the highest part is 2.2m above the adjacent path. Exposed parts of the inner face of the wall are thinly coated with slag. To the north and south are patches of masonry and iron slag.
At SS90398212, some 65m to the north, is a level area on the slope which may be the location of another furnace and some 80m to the south are the remains of the sixteenth-century Angleton iron furnace (nprn 34070).
RCAHMW, 08 June 2010.