Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Drws y Coed Copper Mine
Llanllyfni, Gwynedd, Wales
A scheduled monument in Llanllyfni, Gwynedd, recorded as Copper Mine (Post Medieval/Modern).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Copper Mine
- Period
- Post Medieval/Modern
- Community
- Llanllyfni
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.05802, -4.17095
- SAM number
- CN162
- Cadw record number
- 4363
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesBayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1588 map "Ortelius, Abraham: Theatro De La Tierra Universal. 0" (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1588 · Ortelius, Abraham: Theatro De La Tierra Universal. 0 (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 119 Snowdon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Monument.
A complex of copper mining and processing installations, well documented from the 18th century onwards. The complex includes foundations for crushing machines, the ruins of buildings, a level and a water tower directing water to a water wheel via an aperture in the base of the tower. The large wheel-pit of this water wheel survives, as does a high masonry wall protecting the wheel from the wind.
The surviving yards on the centre of the site (the easternmost mill buildings) have been disturbed and partly rebuilt for use as sheep pens. An area adjacent to these on the W has been cleared for the construction of new sheep pens.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of the copper mining industry. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. The structures themselves may be expected to contain archaeological information concerning chronology and building techniques.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Drws y Coed Prehistoric SettlementUnenclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- BwthynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Capel Drws-y-coed and Ty CapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Y Garn cairnsRound Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.