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Llangolman Quarries;Gilfach Slate Quarry

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NPRN401348
Map ReferenceSN12NW
Grid ReferenceSN1285027080
Unitary (Local) AuthorityCarmarthenshire
Old CountyCarmarthenshire
CommunityClynderwen
Type Of SiteSLATE QUARRY
PeriodPost Medieval
Description
Gilfach Quarry is located in woodland on the southern edge of the village of Llangolman. It constitutes a series of shallow workings on either side of the river Wern. It has been operating since at least the later nineteenth century when it appears on the Ordnance Survey first-edition 25-inch map, and was still working on a small scale as recently as the late 1980s. Although the product was of variable quality, the slate was valued for its green colour, 'rustic' slates being offered as a speciality.
The site has been much disturbed by recent re-working but a few buildings survive, some in re-use, along with some tramway formation.

Sources:
D.Gwyn, Welsh Slate: the Archaeology and History of an Industry (RCAHMW 2015), pp.18 (Fig.28), 29 & 34.
OS County Series mapping: sheet Pembrokeshire XVIII.11, edition of 1890.
A.J.Richards, A Gazeteer of the Welsh Slate Industry (1991), p.231.

David Leighton, RCAHMW, 4 February 2015