Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Nant Mill Wood Shaft Mounds
Minera, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Shaft Mounds
- Period
- Post Medieval/Modern
- Date of designation
- 22 July 1994
- Community
- Minera
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.04724, -3.07395
- SAM number
- DE237
- Cadw record number
- 3809
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 consists of a shaft mound, a circular spoil heap surrounding a wide central depression, the entrance to a mine shaft, dating to the 18th or 19th century. The Nant Mill Wood Shaft Mounds form a group of well-preserved relict shaft mound features for early coal mining. These examples are most likely to represent small bell-pits for primitive digging of coal seams near the surface, and possibly date from the eighteenth century. They may be related to Bersham Ironworks.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of 18th and 19th century industrial and mining practices. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. Shaft mounds may be part of a larger cluster of 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
- Wern FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St AndrewReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Wern CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
- New Minera Lead MineLead Mineunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.