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Graig Colliery & Brick Works, Reservoir

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NPRN507401
Map ReferenceSN90SE
Grid ReferenceSN9621603853
Unitary (Local) AuthorityRhondda Cynon Taff
Old CountyGlamorgan
CommunityPen-y-waun
Type Of SiteRESERVOIR
PeriodPost Medieval
Description
Part of Graig Colliery & Brick Works (nprn 507795). Small reservoir, probably supplying the brick works at Graig Colliery, shown on 1st ed county OS map. Approximately 7m E-W across the slope, by 6m, with banks 1.5m high. It was filled from a stream entering at the south-west corner. It is breached in the NW corner. There is no visible evidence of how water was originally conveyed from the reservoir. Now dry.
Recorded as part of Uplands Initiative Survey. R Hayman, H&H, 16/09/2009.