Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cincoed Limestone Quarries and Kilns
Cyngor Bro Dyffryn Cennen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Cyngor Bro Dyffryn Cennen, Carmarthenshire, recorded as Quarry (Post Medieval/Modern).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Quarry
- Period
- Post Medieval/Modern
- Date of designation
- 30 January 1996
- Community
- Cyngor Bro Dyffryn Cennen
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.83992, -3.96939
- SAM number
- CM276
- Cadw record number
- 1447
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1860 map "41. Caermathen." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1860 · 41. Caermathen. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 230 Ammanford (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 230 Ammanford (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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 quarry workings dating from the industrial period and includes at least nine kilns within one field. Most of the kilns survive as horseshoe-shaped earth banks, but some have remains of drystone fronts. There are spoil tips in front of most of the kiln remains. Pock-marks in the ground surface indicate that the whole ridge has been quarried, but several large quarry pits survive. A trackway on the northern edge of the field appears to have been constructed to carry the burnt lime away and to bring in fuel.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of quarrying in the prehistoric/medieval/industrial period. The quarry may be expected to contain archaeological information in regard to chronology, mining techniques and functional detail. A quarry 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. It measures approximately 50m by 250m and takes in one complete field along the hilltop ridge, defined by the existing field boundaries.
Nearby in the register
- Limekilns East of CincoedLimekilnunder 1 mi
- Lime Kiln to rear of LlandyfanIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Barn to the rear of LlandyfanAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding on N side of farmyard at LlandyfanAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.