Tiny underground working with chambering.** - AJR Summary
The wheel pit and mill remain intact, along with the pit housing the incline winder. The lower working chambers continue upward through the original adit before emerging into open air. Adjacent to the main incline lies a second up-haulage incline, possibly never completed, which passes a small group of buildings and appears to have been operated manually with a portable winch.
In the main workings a wet adit leads to an open chamber. Above and slightly to the south west another adit leads to a level that comes out higher up in the same open chamber. In the chamber there is a lot of fallen rock and this rock has obscured and flooded a level to neck deep heading further inby so this has remained unexplored. Two other levels away from the main site remain unexplored with the level next to the river gated and locked. - Blober
This small-scale underground operation had a brief existence in the late 19th century with a workforce of approximately 12 men. A short-lived revival occurred in the early 1900s when 4 men worked the site producing slab. The subsequent operations took place near the boundary fence, necessitating the transport of all material and waste upward to mill level through an incline driven by an extended under-floor mill shaft.
Publications (1)
- Richards, Alun John (1991); Gazeteer of the Welsh Slate Industry, A; Gwasg Carreg Gwalch 978-0863811968


