Lode is indicated by the positions of several shafts and cuttings across Pen Bannau. There is an adit with a dressing floor and large dumps. Also the remains of a wheelpit for pumping Western Shaft, and also the concrete base for a turbine from more recent times.
Cwm Mawr name from PDMHS
| Year | Activity |
|---|---|
| 1855 | Bronberllan, with little more than a 18’ water wheel and a wooden railway underground. |
| 1856 | Named Abbey Consols. Manager Capt. Edward Williams states that a leat was to be built from Teifi Pools to carry water for driving a water wheel position between the western and eastern shafts, to be used for pumping and winding. |
Publications (8)
- (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 1; pp.36-37
- Hugher, S.J. (2005); Cardigan Recolections Elias Jones 1894-1945 ; 24 pages
- Hughes, Simon J.S. (1976); Cardiganshire - Its Mines and Miners; 52 pages
- Liscombe & Co (1880); Mines of Cardiganshire, Montgomereyshire & Shropshire; 52 pages
- 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)
- Sables, David (2015); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 19-3 Sum - Monks Who Mined, The; 13 pages (8-20)
- Welsh Mines Society (Dec 2001); Newsletter 45; pp. 15-17
