Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cae'r Mynydd Ventilation Furnace and Mine
Bryn, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Colliery
- Period
- Post Medieval/Modern
- Date of designation
- 2 August 2000
- Community
- Bryn
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.62039, -3.69441
- SAM number
- GM547
- Cadw record number
- 3982
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamBayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
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 ventilation furnace dating to the 19th century. The structure housed a brazier for ventilating a nearby drift mine. The entry to a level is immediately adjacent, with the base of a small haulage engine in front of it, and coal tip downhill of the furnace.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of the early nineteenth century coal mining industry. The structures may be expected to contain archaeological information in regard to chronology, building techniques and functional detail. A colliery 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
- Kiln block at former Bryn BrickworksIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Jerusalem Baptist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Cefn yr Argoed CampEnclosureunder 1 mi
- Nant Herbert CampEnclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.