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Hafan Lead Mine; Caninog Mine;Cyneiniog Mine

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NPRN33878
Map ReferenceSN78NW
Grid ReferenceSN7280087900
Unitary (Local) AuthorityCeredigion
Old CountyCardiganshire
CommunityCeulanamaesmawr
Type Of SiteLEAD MINE
PeriodPost Medieval
Description
The Hafan Lead Mine was by worked by Mydelton under the name Caninog / Coninog / Kaninog (the name may also refer to the district vein (Foster-Smith)) in trial workings, in the seventeenth century . The site was subsequently worked by Waller.

Lead, zinc and copper ore were produced during periods when the mine was operational - 1850-54, 1857, and 1863-5, 1897-1900. Surface remains include a wheelpit, cratered sites of shaft and level entrances, dressing floors and extensive workings and tips-screes.

Claire Parry, RCAHMW, 3 June 2011.

SOURCES:
1. Association for Industrial Archaeology: A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Mid-Wales, 1984
2. Foster-Smith, 1979, p45, No. 80).