Remains of wheel pit and crusher house. Adits, engine shaft and trials all visible.
| Year | Activity |
|---|---|
| 1849 | Work started by Joseph, Aaran & Joseph, Sampson Trevethan as mine captain. Old engine shaft cleared a water whell built powered via 300fm long leat. |
| 1851 | Hallet’s Shaft started below the 20fm level. Following a lot of exploratory work, only 200 tons of ore raised. |
| c1860 | Leeds company takes on site and does even worse. |
| 1869 | As Cardigan Bay Consols work undertaken on 3 adits and the Boundary Shaft. Old adit cleared. Work also done at Pensarn. |
| 1870 | Report by Capt Joseph Richards of the Devin Great Consols found that engine shaft was 30fm below adit, the deep/north adit was 152fm long from the Clettwr. |
| 1871 | With all resources gone mine put up for sale. |
| 1878 | Cwm Dwyfor Company on moving to takeove Pensarn also revived work at Bryn yr Arian. |
Publications (6)
- (1922); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XX - Lead and Zinc: Cardiganshire & West Montogmeryshire; 242 pages
- Bick, D.E. (1991); Old Metal Mines of Mid-Wales, The; North of Goginan - Part 3; pp. 40/41
- Francis, Absalom (1874); History of the Cardiganshire Mines; 3 pages
- Hughes, Simon J.S. (1976); Papur Pawb - Newspaper Snippets ; 16 pages
- Liscombe & Co (1880); Mines of Cardiganshire, Montgomereyshire & Shropshire; 52 pages
- Trevethan, S. (1849); Bryn yr Arian - Company Report; 4 pages
