Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Nant-y-Car South Lead Mine
Llanwrthwl, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Lead Mine
- Period
- Post Medieval/Modern
- Date of designation
- 18 July 1997
- Community
- Llanwrthwl
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.23473, -3.63268
- SAM number
- BR232
- Cadw record number
- 1129
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1588 "Ortelius, Abraham: Theatro De La Tierra Universal. 0" (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of a 19th century lead mine including its water-management and transport systems, extraction and dressing processes with their power systems. The mine operated from about the 1850s to the 1880s. The remains include a masonry lined shaft, bob pit, winding equipment, timber ladder, shoring below water level, several drainage adits, tramway, ore bins, picking floors, crusher house, crusher house wheel pit, leat, platforms, jig platforms and circular buddles likely to retain their timber bedding.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance and illustrate our knowledge and understanding of mining technology from a single period. Lead mines may be part of a larger cluster of industrial monuments and their importance can further enhanced by their group value.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Dalrhiw Lead MineLead Mineunder 1 mi
- Prehistoric Enclosure & Settlement Site on Craig y LlysiauEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Two Ring Cairns near Esgair HafodRing Cairnunder 1 mi
- Standing Stone above Craig RhiwnantStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.