Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Caerffili Mountain Shaft Mounds
Caerphilly, Caerphilly, Wales
A scheduled monument in Caerphilly, recorded as Shaft Mounds (Post Medieval/Modern).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Shaft Mounds
- Period
- Post Medieval/Modern
- Date of designation
- 17 January 1995
- Community
- Caerphilly
- Unitary authority
- Caerphilly
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.55824, -3.22278
- SAM number
- GM454
- Cadw record number
- 2916
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 LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1906 · 249 Newport (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- [Kaart] (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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 well preserved group of relict shaft mound features for early coal and iron ore mining. These examples are most likely to represent small bell-pits for primitive digging of seams near the surface. Dcoumentary evidence shows mining within the area dates from the 14th to 19th centuries. Recent archaeological excavations at similar sites have shown the diversity of such features and their potential importance in understanding early mining history.
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
- Watford ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Travellers Rest InnRecreationalunder 1 mi
- Castell MorgraigDefenceunder 1 mi
- Watford Fach Farmhouse with adjoining former barnDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.