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Florida Lead & Zinc Mine;Abbey Consols Mine, Nr. Strata Florida Abbey;Bronberllan

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NPRN33843
Map ReferenceSN76NW
Grid ReferenceSN7425066110
Unitary (Local) AuthorityCeredigion
Old CountyCardiganshire
CommunityYstrad Fflur
Type Of SiteZINC MINE
PeriodPost Medieval
Description
1. Water wheel pit of unusual design, ruins of dressing mills.
2. Spoil Tip remains at SN74296613 (C), banked enclosure with a cross bank at SN74266606 (C). There are also several linear features that may also be associated with the mine workings including a number of banks, ditches and a field boundary. Visible from AP. Site unvisited at time of this edit.
E.J.Stapley, 7/8/00.
3. Active prior to 1845 as Bronberllan, re-opened 1848 and 1852, and working from 1856-1861, 1877-82, 1886-91, 1893-98 and 1905-9.
Surface remains include scant remains of dressing floors, centred on SN44336612, with a ruined house adjecent to the E and tips and settling pits to the W and S, all lying before the site of the deep adit entrance. To the N the remains of a rock-cut wheelpit have been partly destroyed by a quarry. Traces of a tramway link the wheelpit to two shaft heads (SN74386632), between which and a group of five level entrances and tips (Nprn300605), are the site of a second wheelpit and traces of a leat and flat-rod run. A further level entrance and tip is situated in Coed Pen-y-bannau, to the N and an outlying shaft, not located in 1992, appears to be indicated on OS Landline at SN74556662.
J.Wiles 18.06.02
Resources
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application/pdfAWP - Archaeology Wales Project ArchivesReport from an Archaeological Watching Brief of Abbey Consols Metal Mine, Pontrhydfendigaid. Dated 2019. Report no: 1776. Project code: 2689.