Bryndfi

aka Bryndyfi or Neuadd Llwyd


Lead Mine

Worked from 1881 to 1885

Jan 1st, 2024 from Cambrian by Buddle-Bot

Dec 20th, 2024 by BertyBasset



Mid Wales
Furnace
52.5268097, -3.9364951
SN 6872 9387
Open Access
170m
#127


Remains of dressing floors, tramway, crusher, wheelpit, ore bins and four buddles.



Year Activity
<1881 Just a trial.
1881 Heavilly promoted. 100 men employed to build plant designed by D.C. Davies.
c1890s Collapsed with only 24 tons of paying ore produced.

Publications (4)

  • (1922); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XX - Lead and Zinc: Cardiganshire & West Montogmeryshire; 242 pages
  • Barnatt, John (2002); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 15-2 Win - How Grove Excavation Report; 40 pages (1-40)
  • Bick, D.E. (1991); Old Metal Mines of Mid-Wales, The; North of Goginan - Part 3; pp. 43
  • Palmer, Marilyn and Neaverson, Peter (1989); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 10-6 Win - Comparative Archaeology of Tin and Lead Dressing in Britain during the Nineteenth Century, The; 32 pages (316-347)





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