Crusher house and wheelpit below the engine shaft.
Often worked together with Ystum Tuen, Penrhiw and Llwynteifi.
Lewis Morris observed:
hath the Prospect of a Great Work, having a fine range of Ground to the Eastward, and is wrought with very Small Expense, there being hardly any powder used. The vein in the Bottoms is 12 to 18 Inches wide and the ore is found is Soughs in good Quantities, mixed with a kind of dirty clay’.
He also refers to ancient working on a north lode to which the landowner, Powell of Nanteos was driving an adit to reach.
See Bick for more detailled history.
External Links
Publications (5)
- (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; South of Goginan - Part 2; pp. 25-26
- Bick, David (1994); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 12-3 Sum - Early Mining Leats and Ponds in Wales; 4 pages (37-40)
- Hughes, Simon J.S. (1991); British Mining Volume 43 - Castell & Nant y Creiau Mines, The; 23 pages
- Hughes, Simon J.S. (2004); Brief History of the Ystumtuen Mines, A; 18 pages
