Area contains Ordovician shales, conglomerates, and tuffs with mineralisation of calcite, barytes, and galena. Mining activity in this region included a shaft and an adit at SJ 3090 1320, situated within Powys. Additionally, a series of exploratory workings, appearing as linear earthwork trenches, extend just over the border into Shropshire at SJ 3095 1320.
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Publications (2)
- Burt, R, & Waite, P. & Burnley, R. (1990): Mines of Shropshire and Montgomeryshire, The (Mineral Statistics)
- Foster-Smith, J. R. (1978); Mines of Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire, The